Career Driven Archives - San Antonio Woman https://sawoman.com/category/empower/career-driven/ San Antonio Magazine For Women to Connect, Inspire and Encourage the Women of San Antonio Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:56:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://sawoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-woman-ico-32x32.jpg Career Driven Archives - San Antonio Woman https://sawoman.com/category/empower/career-driven/ 32 32 Beyond the Boots https://sawoman.com/2025/11/beyond-the-boots/ https://sawoman.com/2025/11/beyond-the-boots/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:29:35 +0000 https://sawoman.com/?p=29496     Ms. Serafina L. De Los Santos Executive Director 502d Force Support Group, Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) United States Air Force, (Enlisted), United States Army Retired (Major) Photography by David Teran   How has your military career prepared you for your current job? Throughout my military career, I served as a logistician, and […]

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]]> https://sawoman.com/2025/11/beyond-the-boots/feed/ 1 Position Your Small Business for Success in a Rapidly Changing Market https://sawoman.com/2023/05/position-your-small-business-for-success-in-a-rapidly-changing-market/ https://sawoman.com/2023/05/position-your-small-business-for-success-in-a-rapidly-changing-market/#respond Wed, 31 May 2023 22:21:46 +0000 https://sawoman.wpengine.com/?p=22268   By Linda Ratner, RN, MBA While there is no one size fits all approach to position your business for success in the current marketplace, companies must find ways to adapt to stay ahead of the curve. Coming out of the Covid pandemic gave us many valuable lessons. While not all-inclusive and not in order […]

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]]> https://sawoman.com/2023/05/position-your-small-business-for-success-in-a-rapidly-changing-market/feed/ 0 Blue-collar STEM workers tout well-paying, in-demand jobs without the advanced degree https://sawoman.com/2022/11/blue-collar-stem-workers-tout-well-paying-in-demand-jobs-without-the-advanced-degree/ https://sawoman.com/2022/11/blue-collar-stem-workers-tout-well-paying-in-demand-jobs-without-the-advanced-degree/#respond Wed, 02 Nov 2022 04:01:00 +0000 https://sawoman.wpengine.com/?p=21933 Patty Garcia started her career as a lineworker for CPS Energy in 1988, when it was still known as City Public Service. She worked to help manually install the underground steel gas pipes and conduits that bring electricity and natural gas into people's homes.

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]]> https://sawoman.com/2022/11/blue-collar-stem-workers-tout-well-paying-in-demand-jobs-without-the-advanced-degree/feed/ 0 Encouraging Middle School Students to Step Into STEM https://sawoman.com/2022/11/encouraging-middle-school-students-to-step-into-stem/ https://sawoman.com/2022/11/encouraging-middle-school-students-to-step-into-stem/#respond Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:54:00 +0000 https://sawoman.wpengine.com/?p=21912 Step Into STEM is a unique career awareness program that inspires middle school students to choose an education focused on science, technology, engineering, or mathematics to prepare for future STEM careers. A STEM education is an empowering interdisciplinary approach that generates lifelong career opportunities.

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]]> https://sawoman.com/2022/11/encouraging-middle-school-students-to-step-into-stem/feed/ 0 STEM: UTSA Brenna Halverson https://sawoman.com/2022/07/stem-utsa-brenna-halverson/ https://sawoman.com/2022/07/stem-utsa-brenna-halverson/#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:59:00 +0000 https://sawoman.wpengine.com/?p=21490         Brenna Halverson: UTSA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences  By Antonio Gutierrez     When Brenna Halverson tells people she works in volcanology, she often gets a puzzled look followed by the remark, “Oh, you study Star Trek for a living?”  Halverson will then have to explain that volcanology is the […]

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]]> https://sawoman.com/2022/07/stem-utsa-brenna-halverson/feed/ 0 STEM : Texas Biomedical Research Akudo Anyanwu https://sawoman.com/2022/07/stem-texas-biomedical-research-akudo-anyanwu/ https://sawoman.com/2022/07/stem-texas-biomedical-research-akudo-anyanwu/#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:41:00 +0000 https://sawoman.wpengine.com/?p=21485       STEM : Texas Biomedical Research Akudo Anyanwu   Akudo Anyanwu, MD, MPH Vice President, Development Texas Biomedical Research Institute     Dr. Akudo Anyanwu has long had a passion for global health. Born in Philadelphia to Nigerian parents, she was introduced early to global perspectives and helping others by her father, a […]

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]]> https://sawoman.com/2022/07/stem-texas-biomedical-research-akudo-anyanwu/feed/ 0 STEM: SMU Veronica Contreras Shannon https://sawoman.com/2022/05/stem-smu-veronica-contreras-shannon/ https://sawoman.com/2022/05/stem-smu-veronica-contreras-shannon/#respond Sun, 01 May 2022 21:31:00 +0000 https://sawoman.wpengine.com/?p=21206 Verónica Contreras-Shannon, Ph.D.  Professor of Biological Sciences and MARC U*STAR Program Director St. Mary’s University One Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, TX 78228 210-431-4324 1. What path led you to where you are in your career/education today? As an undergraduate student, I had a work-study position in an ecology research lab studying various agricultural pests. […]

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]]> https://sawoman.com/2022/05/stem-smu-veronica-contreras-shannon/feed/ 0 STEM: UTSA Karen Mendiondo https://sawoman.com/2022/05/stem-utsa-karen-mendiondo/ https://sawoman.com/2022/05/stem-utsa-karen-mendiondo/#respond Sun, 01 May 2022 21:21:00 +0000 https://sawoman.wpengine.com/?p=21199   UTSA Environmental Science and Engineering Student Finds the Earth and Ocean to be the Ideal Research Laboratory By Antonio Gutierrez As a child, Karen Mendiondo found great fascination in the rocks and minerals she found and tucked in her pocket while hiking the White Mountains of her native New Hampshire and marveling at the […]

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]]> https://sawoman.com/2022/05/stem-utsa-karen-mendiondo/feed/ 0 How can San Antonio build the STEM workforce it desperately needs? https://sawoman.com/2022/05/how-can-san-antonio-build-the-stem-workforce-it-desperately-needs/ https://sawoman.com/2022/05/how-can-san-antonio-build-the-stem-workforce-it-desperately-needs/#respond Sun, 01 May 2022 18:40:00 +0000 https://sawoman.wpengine.com/?p=20997     How can San Antonio build the STEM workforce it desperately needs?   By Brooke Crum and Lindsey Carnett – San Antonio Report Photos by Bria Woods – San Antonio Report     Three years ago, San Antonio ninth-grader Audrie Torres would not have been able to attend a medical magnet high schoolanywhereon the […]

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]]> https://sawoman.com/2022/05/how-can-san-antonio-build-the-stem-workforce-it-desperately-needs/feed/ 0 BUSINESS WOMAN INSIGHTS: Reducing Your Expenses https://sawoman.com/2021/09/business-woman-insights-reducing-your-expenses/ https://sawoman.com/2021/09/business-woman-insights-reducing-your-expenses/#respond Thu, 16 Sep 2021 05:27:31 +0000 https://sawoman.wpengine.com/?p=19122 According to Benjamin Franklin, “a penny saved is a penny earned.” In other words, it’s just as beneficial to save money as it is to earn it. But anyone familiar with cost reduction knows that Franklin was wrong. In fact, a penny saved is significantly more valuable than a penny earned!    One of the […]

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