"Never give up on yourself. Meditate, exercise, rest, and explore creative hobbies. Invest in your mental and physical health. Doing so will make you appreciate your academic labor and rewards. Seek out a diverse cohort of mentors and colleagues. Speak your truth and honor the voices of those we "study.""

Dr Katharine Fernstrom’s research in the archaeology of art and material culture sits at the intersections of colonial, dominant, and oppressed cultures. Current research includes the position of murals on the North American landscape from earliest pre-contact to most recent Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) statements. Examination of the full assemblage of human artmaking behavior on the landscape opens discussion of both shared and contested spaces.

Hyang Jin Jung is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Seoul National University, South Korea. She received her Ph.D. in 2001 in cultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Her research interests lie in the intersection among culture, self, and emotion, with U.S. and the two Koreas as her primary anthropological sites. Her ongoing research projects include the psychocultural underpinnings of the North Korean statehood and society, education and cultural psychology in South Korea, and the emotional culture of the postmodern American society. She is author of Learning to Be an Individual: Emotion and Person in an American Junior High School (Peter Lang, 2007).

"I am fortunate to continue pursuing anthropology as my career as an incoming Assistant Professor of Biocultural Medical Anthropology at The University of Toronto—St. George. I use anthropological skills daily, whether connecting to community partners, planning mixed-methods research, or mentoring students. Although I am also a human biologist, I became a AAA member early in my career because I wanted to be exposed to all types of anthropological thinking. I stay a AAA member because, as a biocultural anthropologist, it is vital to see all types of anthropology—especially cultural."

"I became a member when I was a graduate student to attend annual meetings, present my work, and meet anthropologists from across the world. These meetings planted in me the seeds for my later work representing anthropology and anthropologists in organizations such as EASA, IUAES, WCAA, WAU, ISC, and CIPSH."