It still feels like summer, but school is starting (or has already begun) in many parts of the country! For the next few weeks, Girls Like You and Me will be sharing the stories of women in education. They'll be sharing what their jobs involve both inside and outside the classroom.
Today, we're featuring Beth Merfish, who is an assistant professor of art history in Houston, Texas. Beth talked to us about how her lifelong love of learning about people and how they live, what the study of art history is and how she fell in love with it, her work in political activism to give everyone a voice, and how asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness.
Art history professor Beth Merfish always loved biographies and visual learning and found a way to combine them in the visual language of art. She tells us how summer camp was a chance to try one a new self, how she uses political activism to give everyone a voice, and how exciting it was when she got her PhD and her professors became her peers.
