“Fandom”. Learned a new vocabulary word!
Best bunch of creative women I’ve ever met. Accomplished in their fields from lawyers to archeologists to professors to sociologists, etc. Giving of themselves to each other to help everyone be the best that they can be. I was in physics/computer science and not surrounded by many women in the early days. These women taught me just how to value the differences that women brought. I gained three careers out of fandom, and I thank these women for their encouragement and help. When the IBM VP gave me the multimedia magazine, I told him that I wouldn’t make videos about his projects. I’d make them about the people that made his projects. And when he announced my project in a Research meeting, that’s how he described it. I think that’s the sort of impact that fandom made on me.