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Promo for Alverno Presents "Christopher Porterfield: How to Write a Popular Song."

May 20, 2015 in Portrait, Music and Dance

Alverno College Pitman Theatre 1/30/16

www.alvernopresents.alverno.edu

Tags: Chris Porterfield, Field Report, Alverno Presents, Promo, Turner Hall Ballroom

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#tbt To one of my favorite places in the world #oldsanjuan #takemeback

Name: Lauren⠀
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Job: Civil Engineering - Structural⠀
Women as a percentage of total employed as Civil Engineers: 16.5%⠀ “I chose this field because I recognized a need for structures not only in the US but all around the world through my work with Engineers Without Borders. I have a passion for working with communities in other countries and wanted to do what I love regardless of where I live.”

Sunset from the archive 🌞

Name: Kilah
Job: 20 years as a Heavy Highway Cement Mason, 1 year as Business Agent for OPCMIA (Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association)⠀⠀
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Women as a percentage of total employed as Cement Masons: 1.36% ⠀⠀⠀
“I started this career as a way to make good money during the summers and pay for school. My stepdad put me on a crew when I graduated from High School. I loved the work and being outside and I decided to take a break from college, as I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I knew I had fun - TONS of fun - building roads during the summer and snowboarding all winter...my year off of school turned into a lifelong career - one that I didn’t even know existed before I did it.
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One of the challenges is that you are always having to prove yourself. Every time you go on a new site, or work with a new crew there will be doubters. You have to take those that don’t believe in you and understand that by nature, they have thoughts about how you are going to affect their day and prove them wrong. Even after many many years and developing super professional talents and skills, sometimes there will still be doubters. But that has to be one of those things that you don’t let get to you and that you look at as an opportunity to fight for all women. Fight to change the perspective, fight to change the bias based on gender that the industry is full of. It’s not good or bad... it just is at this point. To me, it’s become my life’s work to make sure people know I am where I am because I’m one of the best - and I’m not unique. I know more and more women who are climbing the ladder and who are becoming leaders in the industry. We are changing the culture and it’s a culture that has been developing for a long time - change doesn’t happen all that quickly and we can’t give up, even though it might take a few decades before we shift the numbers to be more representative of the population which is half women.”

My most recent work for Alverno College 📖 #AlvernoStrong

Wardrobe this morning 💕 #personalwork #pavewithpride #womenintrades #empowHER

Beauty in numbers #tbt #onassignment ⠀⠀
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'Painting by Numbers' by Charles Atlas #museumlover #artfamily

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