IMPORTANT
Thriving in Community
Mentorship and Sustainable Productivity for College Students
Friday, September 19, 2025 · 1 - 2:30 PM
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 MartÃnez-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 MartÃnez-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? (UC Press) and co-editor of the Chicana M(other)work Anthology (UA Press). As the founder of Grad School Femtoring, LLC and host of the award-winning Grad School Femtoring Podcast, she 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 Faculty 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
