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Chilocco Indian School: A Generational Story was made possible by: Chilocco National Alumni Association, @OKHumanities and many others. Art: Mvskoke artist @DiaconJohnnie - Art Direction: @JerryBennettArt - Story: Julie Pearson-Little Thunder. Read Here: bit.ly/ChiloccoGraphi…

She encourages women to not abandon their emotions and intuition to fit into a male dominated field, but hold onto them as their “secret little powers”. To learn more about Kandi Wilson and her inspirational career, you can visit: youtube.com/watch?v=R98fls…

Wilson now lives in Tulsa with her Husband and four daughters. She is a vocal advocate for female leadership and shares her story willingly, saying, "I want to have inspired as many people as many times as I’ve been inspired".

After graduation in 2011, she accepted a job with Chesapeake Energy Corporation as a measurement analyst. She worked her way up and accepted a position as a supply chain manager for Williams Companies.

Ultimately, Wilson was driven to succeed for her family, " I had three reasons. Those were my daughters. And I wanted them to be so proud of me. I really wanted to create a life for them, which was the life that I had only read about in books".

Wilson enrolled in Southwestern Oklahoma State University at 26, working three jobs to support her and her three daughters while pursuing a degree. While she looks back on that time as extremely difficult, she met several professors and women that supported and encouraged her.

Kandi Wilson was born into a tumultuous family situation, which let her to leave home at 16 years old. While she was able to attain her GED at 18, becoming a young single mother forced her to pause her education. 🧵

To learn more about Shrum and her ceiling-breaking career, view our oral history interview with her from our "STEM Areas and Women" collection: youtube.com/watch?v=PA79TA…

When speaking to young women Dr. Shrum often says: "...people will say things or people will doubt you, and you can’t control that, but you can control how you receive it and what you do with that information."

Dr. Shrum’s resume holds a lengthy list of positions and achievements within both academic and government administrations. Namely, she became the first female and youngest dean of a medical school in Oklahoma in 2013 at OSU-CHS.

Dr. Shrum credits her decision to pursue medicine to a professor who stopped her after class and encouraged her to consider medical school, giving her the confidence to apply. In 1998, she graduated from the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine and began her career as a doctor.

Before @drshrum took on her role as President of @okstate she worked as a pediatrician. Born in Coweta, Oklahoma, Dr. Shrum attended Connors State College on a softball scholarship for the first two years of undergrad, before finishing at Arkansas University. 🧵

Kim encourages any student who is struggling with their sexuality or gender identity to practice patience and compassion with both themselves and others. To learn more about Carrie Kim and he amazing life, you can visit: youtube.com/watch?v=4vdp7M…

She came to Stillwater, Oklahoma, to work in museum education and the university museum, before moving back to Wisconsin to work at Carthage College. Whether it be through teaching or curation, art has remained a constant in Kim’s career and personal life.

For Carrie Kim, art has been a driving and positive force in her life, one she credited with saving her life. Growing up in the small conservative town of Fredonia, Wisconsin, Kim remembers her childhood as idyllic and defined by running around with the neighborhood kids. 🧵

Piehl encourages younger generations of the LGBTQ+ community to continue to be brave and true to themselves, always reaching out for help when needed. To learn more about Angela Piehl, you can visit: youtube.com/watch?v=kFReMj…

After graduating, Piehl went on to graduate school at the University of Arizona for art to become a professor. She taught at OSU for twelve years, before moving to be a professor at the University of Wisconsin where she continues to work as a successful artist and instructor.

When Angela Piehl moved to Austin for college from her small town of Tomball, Texas in the 90s, she got to be part of a growing and progressive community that nurtured her as a student, artist, and member of the LGBTQ+ community. #PrideMonth