JUNE 2022

This year’s COSP, the fifteenth, was unlike any other. Never before have we gathered after years apart during a pandemic. After so much time spent seeing each other only through screens, it was a pleasure to see and be with colleagues old and new. We were not all able to be there in person; travel restrictions, visa appointments, and budgets wouldn’t allow.

JUNE 2022

When I look back to my late 20s, as a young woman, out of college and looking forward to being employed, I worried most that ‘the fear’ that I experienced – that it would hold me back. Around this time, I did receive a mental health diagnosis which sort of shaped my experience of the workplace.