Thriving In Community: Mentorship and Sustainable Productivity Workshop for College and Grad Students
Location
Online
Date & Time
September 19, 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Description
Many students navigate higher education
while balancing intersecting challenges, including academic workload,
cultural and family expectations, and access barriers. These experiences
can be especially pronounced for first-generation, BIPOC, disabled, and
other historically excluded students. In this interactive workshop,
Dra. Yvette Martínez-Vu will share evidence-informed, culturally
grounded strategies for sustaining productivity without burnout and
building supportive mentorship and femtorship networks. Participants
will explore practical tools to manage their time and energy
effectively, identify flexible pathways for mentorship, and cultivate
relationships that help them thrive both personally and academically.
Attendees will leave with actionable strategies, downloadable tools, and
a renewed sense of connection, ready to navigate their educational
journeys with confidence and care.
Dra. Yvette Martínez-Vu (she/her) is a first-generation, disabled, and
autistic Chicana grad school and productivity certified coach,
consultant, speaker, and LinkedIn Learning instructor. She is also the co-author of Is Grad School for Me?: Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Student and co-editor of the best-selling
Chicana M(other)work Anthology. As the founder of the Grad School Femtoring, LLC and the host of the award-winning Grad School Femtoring Podcast,
he helps first-gen BIPOC students and
professionals navigate academia and careers with sustainable
productivity strategies. Her work focuses on grad admissions, executive
functioning, flexible work systems, burnout prevention, and
values-aligned success. Dra. Yvette offers coaching, consulting, and
speaking engagements on grad school admissions, career development,
productivity, and wellbeing.
This event is co-sponsored by the Critical Disability Studies Minor, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Working Group on Latin American Feminisms, the Global Studies Council of Majors, the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, and the Master's in Intercultural Communication
