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Everett Aluminum Washington, Whitney Conder began wrestling when she was eight years old. “I had a lot of people who did not like me wrestling,” she said during the March 26 discussion. “They said I was a girl in a boys sport.” During one match, a father off ered his son $20 to pin Conder and make her cry. However, the match had a much different outcome. “I ended up pinning him and making him cry,” she said. “My mom tapped the dad on the shoulder and said, ‘My daughter just pinned your son and made him cry – I’ll take that 20 bucks please.’” By the time Conder started middle school, her mother wanted her to stop wrestling and even asked the school’s wrestling coach to not allow her daughter on the team. The coach assured Conder’s mother that he never had a girl last longer than two weeks. However, Conder proved to be much diff erent. Not only did she remain on the team, she went on to win two wrestling championships by the end of middle school. Conder’s high school wrestling career was very similar, and she placed twice in the Boys State Championships. While attending Trident University International in Cypress, California, Conder wrestled on the women’s team and won the Junior World Championships. After college, Conder spent the next four years at the Olympic Training Center, enlisted in the U.S. Army in September 2012 and holds the rank of staff sergeant. “My job in the military is to wrestle,” said Conder. She is now a fi ve-time member of the World Team and has won six national titles. Conder also received two Silver Medals from the Army and won the PanAm Games in 2015 and 2019. She is presently a number one seed in the Olympic Trials, vying to represent the United States at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer. Rebecca Muse has been a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children since 2013. “Somehow I landed my dream job very early on,” she said, adding that as of 2019 women held 76 percent of the healthcare jobs in the nation. “I really love what I do and I’ve gotten very comfortable there.” However, the COVID-19 pandemic was the ultimate test for Muse and her colleagues. “Last year changed everything,” she said. “It felt like overnight, our 20-bed fl oor emptied out and the next thing you know, there are no kids left. Every bed was fi lled with an adult COVID patient.” Despite the fl urry of sudden changes, Muse said, an attending physician, Dr. Lindsay Carter, put things into perspective, saying, “We’re still caring for our patients, just in a diff erent way. We’re making sure that their moms, dads and grandparents come home to them.” Although the children have returned during the past year, Muse said the emotional scars of COVID-19 are clearly evident as there has been a dramatic spike in the number of mental health cases and suicide attempts. “In a strange, twisted way, this pandemic has pointed out a lot of health disparities,” she said. Aurora Vellante’s journey began at Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School in Haverhill. Originally drawn to the medical fi eld, Vellante became a certifi ed nursing assistant and an emergency medical technician. “I just dove into the hospital setting,” she said. As time passed, Vellante began to pull back from nursing, earned her associate’s degree in biology and went on to Salem State University to study sport movement science. “I had no idea what it was, I had no idea about all of the amazing things it involved,” she said. Vellante noticed that her faculty advisors were all men, and she did not understand why women were not teaching sport movement science. Therefore, Vellante decided to change that demographic and is now an adjunct professor at Salem State as well as a crossfi t coach. “I decided that’s what I was going to do for the rest of my life,” she said. Originally from Switzerland, Dominique Hess got her start as an advertising representative. “The advertising world is a very male-dominated world,” she said. “I really learned how to stick up for my ideas.” In November 2015, Hess became a senior marketing manager at Girl Effect, a subsidiary of the Nike Foundation. “It was an incredible experience to work with them,” she said, adding that the overall objective was to help young women build self-esteem. “It was really girls fi xing their own problems.” Hess is now a sales program manager for Tesla and has been in that position since March 2020. Spring! 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