Finding Your Purpose and Achieving Work-Life Balance
This workshop is for you if:
You are interested in a STEM career
You have a desire to define your purpose
You want to learn more about how YOU can be successful even when it seems hard
Workshop details:
For some us, planning out what our future can be fun and exciting, while many of us have a general idea of who we are and what we hope we'd be able to do and be when we're older. As Natasha Bedingfield sings, "Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten." Join me as we discuss how to define and find your purpose in both your career and personal life while life might throw every curveball and deliver the sourest lemon it has to offer. You'll walk away with some key advice to help you navigate through planning, preparing, and thriving in your career and personal life. Come with questions and be prepared to learn how I've managed to navigate and achieve work-life balance as a working mom who's also managed to be successful despite being in a male-dominant and predominantly white career field.
Meet Michelle Bunn
Project Manager, Energy Coalition
Michelle earned her B.S. in Bioengineering and M.A. in Education at SDSU. She dedicated 12+ years to K-12 STEM outreach organizations as an Academic Coordinator for MESA Schools Program and as an Associate Director and Director for Project Lead The Way California to help diversify the STEM workforce and help increase students’ access and engagement in STEM.
She was also previously the Director of SDSU’s Women in Engineering and Femineer® Programs, an adjunct professor for SDSU’s Women in Science & Engineering university seminar course and a member of SDSU’s Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and the chair of San Diego STEM Ecosystem’s Women in STEM working group.
For 9+ years, she served on the San Diego Unified School District and Grossmont Union High School District’s Career Technical Education Advisory Boards. She is currently a Project Manager at The Energy Coalition, serving various public agencies, including school districts, as TEC’s Schools Lead, through SoCalREN’s Public Agency programs. She is the VP of SoCal Events for the Association of Energy Services Professionals California Chapter and serves on SDUSD’s Nipaquay Elementary’s School Site Council. She is also a proud mom of her 7 and 4 year old sons.
“Always do your best and you’ll never wonder if you should’ve done things differently.”
