Event Details

Event Type: Online Class

Tue
April 02, 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm
At your computer/device

Event Registration

Co-sponsored by the Stanford Faculty Staff Help Center

You are invited to join us for a virtual book club to discuss thoughts raised by the book Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren.

This memoir is a compelling read, with stories that encourage us to reflect and relate. Dr. Jahren’s book reveals two worlds: one that surrounds Professor Jahren – her experience as a woman scientist in the male-dominated academic community. The other is within Jahren’s own thoughts, feelings, and behavior, as she is compelled by her scientific passion and mental health issues.

Lab Girl – a featured NEA “big read” community book – is her true-to-life narrative that exposes challenges that confront women scientists and, more broadly, those who pursue a life of the mind. Jahren’s frank details also encourage us to relate our own story to how she embraces the human connection and friendships that are essential for us to live our full life.

Please read the book on your own in advance and join us online for discussion facilitated by the Stanford Faculty Staff Help Center. The class will include group discussion as well as breakout rooms where you can share your thoughts with your fellow participants.

This class will not be recorded. Attendance at the live session is required to receive incentive points.

Request disability accommodations and access info.

Facilitators: Rosan Gomperts, LCSW, is the director of the Faculty Staff Help Center and has been licensed as a clinical social worker since 2002.  She works with individuals and couples as well as facilitating conflicts and giving courses and coaching in emotional intelligence and communicating with tact and skill.

Roland Hsu, LCSW, is a counselor at the Stanford Faculty Staff Help Center. He has worked and taught at Stanford over the past twenty years in a variety of positions.

Class details are subject to change.

Spring quarter registration opens on March 4