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Although ENTITY Magazine has given me the opportunity to meet and take a class taught by an award-winning journalist, to watch a private show by the American Contemporary Ballet and to work in a fast-paced startup company launched by two incredible #WomenThatDo, ENTITY has given me something more valuable. My most memorable moments at ENTITY are colored with resounding laughter, genuine camaraderie and honest conversations about worries, experiences and aspirations.
In the past two months, I have spent my lunch hour fostering a friendship with the intelligent women I have been privileged to work with.
When I graduated college, I was afraid of leaving a community that celebrated and supported critical thought about social justice, current events and society as a whole. In college, it is easy to find students and instructors who will push you to question what society accepts as the “status quo.” It is easy to find people willing to talk about generally “taboo” topics such as politics, feminism, gender equality and intersectionality.
So, when I first arrived at the ENTITY office, it was refreshing and inspiring to be in a room of intellectual and likeminded women who were naturally curious and passionate. With them, I had conversations about race, gender and sexuality. I was able to freely talk about the lengths women went to in order to feel safe when walking to their car at dusk. I was always excited to hear what they had to say. And best of all, even after graduating, I continued learning.
With these women, having conversations like these came organically. When you’re around so many thoughtful, creative and scholarly women, you can’t help but think critically. Because of them, the memories I will hold most dear from ENTITY are those when I was forced to expand my way of thinking, encouraged to dream bigger and pushed to learn more.
