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Episode: Her Blog Post Got 15 Views. One Person Built an Entire Career From It. | Jennifer van Alstyne
Description: Jennifer Van Alstyne posted about academics being paid for their speaking. It went viral - but not in the way she hoped. The comments were hateful. Some were racist. Fellow academics pushed back. She kept showing up anyway. Jennifer is the founder of The Academic Designer, where she helps professors build their online presence through website design, social media, and bio writing. But before any of that, she was 18 years old, away at college, having lost her parents and left an abusive marriage - figuring out how to make her way in the world alone.<...