Taneisha Gillyard Cheairs
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Mom 👧🏽👶🏽🌸 Wife 💍 #FirstGen #MeharryMade Scientist👩🏽🔬🧬🔬 | #Multipassionate |#BlackDoula 🤰🏽🤱🏽✊🏽 RT/likes≠endorsement
Tennessee, USA
Joined September 2020
I found this good description of prioritizing the multiple roles one has to juggle as a parent, partner, & lab head. Determining which 'balls' are rubber, glass, or wood *beforehand* provides an action plan for when balls (inevitably) start dropping:
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Special gratitude shoutout to fellow @MeharrySOGS alumna @HKbeasley for sharing her funded LRP app as an example!
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🎉 Exciting BiP News! Black in Physiology congratulates Dr. Annet Kirabo (@annetkiraboc1) for being honored with a prestigious Chancellor Faculty Fellow Award at Vanderbilt University! Join us in congratulating Dr. Kirabo on this incredible achievement. #BlackinPhysio #BiP
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Grateful to be one among the amazing group of mentors for this awesome 1st cohort of the #SHIFTprogram! We had an amazing time at our in-person kick off in DC last week and I’m looking forward to interacting with the mentees more over the following months!
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Faculty looking to learn CryoEM: Attend our workshop ChimeraX to CryoEM. Register: https://t.co/8hYUiHP2UL
@SBGrid @BlackInBiophys #HBCU #MSI
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ISO advice: what do y'all do when experiencing crippling imposter syndrome? Like, I KNOW that I am capable, knowledgable, etc. but imposter syndrome got a hold of my brain and locked it and I can't seem to break through it.
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Birth centers made CNN today - with focus on equity and consumer experience. let’s hope the focus on a regulatory barrier- a certificate of need - which NJ has- and is a huge barrier to increasing number of birth centers is examined and repealed.
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Definitely acknowledging the privilege that it is to even have options and the means to make a choice…..and amongst all the s**t going on in the world 😓 this is stressful 😅
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It’s time to start making decisions on/submitting apps for where my daughter will go for kindergarten 😭 wrestling with keeping her in her current Montessori school or do we venture into the world of public/charter schools?! 😵💫the weight of making the right decision for her! 😣
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Being the 1st in your family to go to college is a huge accomplishment & you must be proud of it. Here I share with you some of the lessons I learned on my path from first-gen student to an academic leadership role. 10 Lessons from a 1st Generation College Student =THREAD=
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The first-gen struggle is real 😓 never really had the language to explain how/why but the lack of cultural capital is it. 🎯
@_abuelbanat My parents were college educated outside the US, and I definitely struggled to figure out the US system. However, I still had access to cultural capital and social networks conferred by parental education. It’s nowhere near the same as coming from a truly first-gen household.
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I’m flipping the narrative on Black Maternal Mortality to Black Maternal VITALITY!!! Black women & birthing people do enjoy healthy, joyful, vibrant pregnancies, deliveries, & postpartum periods & those stories must be celebrated. Stories of full abundant life! More to come…
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Check us out!! Priority deadline is December 15th! Feel free to private message me with any questions 😊
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✨Happy #FirstGenDay! I am a proud #FirstGen college student! Congrats all #FirstGen working hard to pave the path for others to follow. #CelebrateFirstGen
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THIS! And all of that on top of the million things that require my attention in my personal life (kids, husband, personal interests, family, health/self care etc.)😵💫 #OneDayAtATime learning (the hard way 🥴) the importance of setting boundaries.
The hardest part of #NewPI life 4 me is focusing on 1 task at a time… literally EVERYTHING is important, and it’s quite overwhelming. Add a lil ADHD, a smidge of anxiety, and a dash of depression, the struggle is too real…However, I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else 😩…
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👏🏽👏🏽 next up.. Dr. Kayla Rayford!!!
And just like that…..it’s over! So excited to share what I’ve been up to over the past 5 years! Thanks for the continuous support, love, and encouragement. We’re almost there y’all 🫶🏾
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Last night I had to make the heartbreaking decision to have my dog put to sleep. Moxie was a rescue with a horrible past of abuse but has the biggest heart. She has been with me for the past 11 years and helped me through A LOT. I’m glad my kids got to know her love too. 😭💔
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Hey @Leah_Banks7! 👀🫶🏽
An honor to host an incredible & inspiring individual. Your resilience & contributions are paving the way for many. Thank you @Sorrell_Lab for kicking off STORIES, a new initiative shining a spotlight on the remarkable journeys of our esteemed scientists @UTSWNews #SpotlightUTSW
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