SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Why we choke under pressure
– and how to avoid it
Barnard President on Gender Bias and Female Presidential Candidates
The Brain Game
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2024
2023
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2022
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2012
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2011
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*This Associated Press piece also appeared in, among others, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Salon, Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post.
2010
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*This Associated Press piece also appeared in, among others, USA Today, Business Week, CBS, Discovery News, MSN AP News in Brief, and the Guardian