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Episode: Unemployed for 18 Months With a PhD. Now She Speaks at Ivy Leagues. | Dr. Gertrude Nonterah
Description: In 2018, Dr. Gertrude Nonterah lost her postdoc position. For the next 18 months, she applied for jobs with a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology — and heard nothing. During that stretch, she googled "famous people who were fired" just to find something to hold onto. Today, Dr. G is the founder of The Bold PhD, helping graduate students navigate careers beyond academia. She's spoken at Oxford, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins - and Brown University, where she was invited not by faculty or administrators, but by a graduate student who'd been watching her videos. She never attended an Ivy Le...