Charity Bowers (she/her) is a second-year welding student at Linn-Benton Community College. Charity started the program directly out of high school, a proud Harrisburg High School alumni. In this episode, Charity talks about how the skilled trades industry and culture are evolving as well as her experience stepping outside of her comfort zone to attend college.

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Happy Earth Day Closing the Gap listeners!

Joining us in the studio today is Gabrielle McNally, Director of Women for the Land, a sector of American Farmland Trust. Gabrielle will be discussing the resources that American Farmland Trust has to offer, as well as why you should support your local farms. We will wrap up our chat by talking about the wide variety of careers in agriculture, and some of the pros and cons of the industry.

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"It's not about perfection, it's about perseverance," says Kristi Lebkowsky, STEM educator at Henley High School in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Henley High School provides a career technical education experience for their students that is producing high rates of students entering college and high-paying positions in the workforce post-graduation due to the high caliber of employability skills Henely students are developing during their high school career.

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In this episode, we talk about creating community, collaborating for diversity, and growing where you are planted. Sprinkled throughout listeners can hear insights as to what it is like to own a small business, both the positives and negatives.

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Professional in the field of semiconductors, Sarala Paliwal, joins us today on Closing the Gap. Listen along as we define what a semiconductor is, discuss the rapid growth of the semiconductor industry, and how taking a holistic approach to your education will set you up for success.

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Hey listeners, welcome back to Closing the Gap. This episode is special because it is Closing the Gap's first collaboration episode! Kacey sits down with hosts, Natalie Wang and Rachael Cleveland, of Women in Science PDX's podcast, W.I.S.terhood, to talk about their experience working in STEM communications.

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Alice Welch (she/they) is a graduate student in biology instructor at Oregon State University. Currently, Alice is doing some exciting work with a recently opened research lab observing the predator response in certain species of birds.

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Melissa Koke is the fourth-generation business leader at Koke New Century Companies (QSL Print Communications, Instaprint & TechnaPrint). In this episode, Kacey and Melissa talk about what it takes to grow into a leadership position in a manufacturing company and how to respectfully, but firmly advocate for yourself in the workplace.

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