DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach

Chief Encouragement Officer ★Executive Career Coach ★ Helping emerging women leaders and executives achieve career breakthroughs ★ ICF-ACC ★ Author

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

Meet Alena Analeigh McQuarter, a 17-year-old phenomenon and unstoppable young queen rewriting history in STEM and medicine! 👏🏽
At just 13 years old, she made history as the youngest Black student ever accepted into a U.S. medical school (University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine).
Now at 17, this powerhouse has already achieved what most only dream of:
• Graduated high school at 12
• Earned her Bachelor’s in Biomedical Sciences and Master’s in Biological Sciences (both Summa Cum Laude) from Arizona State University by age 15
• Became the youngest person of color to intern at NASA (at just 12)
• Founded The Brown STEM Girl and The Brown STEM Girl Foundation — creating scholarships, mentorship programs, and global opportunities for girls of color in STEM
• Conducting advanced research in cancer immunology, virology, and global health
• Pursuing her PhD in Integrated Biomedical Sciences (focus on infection, immunity & inflammation) at Loma Linda University while on the path to her MD/PhD
• Initiated into Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. as one of the youngest members
From Texas to NASA to the frontiers of medicine — Alena’s journey is a powerful testament to discipline, brilliance, and purpose. She’s not just breaking barriers… she’s building bridges for every young Black girl behind her.
Her story is a powerful one. Keep shining, Queen! 👏🏽

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

They make the best Black Cherry ice cream. I can never have enough of it.

[MaggieK 🇨🇦 @MaggieKeresteci]

Chapman's Ice Cream is amazing. They used to source fruits & nuts from US suppliers. Then Trump slapped on 25% tariff. So what did Chapman's do? They called Italy. They called Spain. They signed contracts with European suppliers. This is a family-run business of good Canadians!

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

@justflycom has been giving me the runaround for a refund I am due. Having me hold on for 2 hour and 27 minutes for a live person, and had to hang up in frustration is not good. I will continue to post sporadically on this platform, Instagram & TikTok until I receive my refund.

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

Thanks for sharing. I remember her story quite well. Google wanted het to keep her head in the sand, eh? SMH!

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

After 1 hour and 3 minutes am still waiting on someone to pick up the phone, even though I was told my wait time was 25 minutes. 🤬

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

@justflycom, Running out of patience with you over a refund that am due since early April. After numerous Chatbot conversations over the past 6 weeks, I resorted to phone support, but it's the same. Earlier today I held on for 27 minutes. Right now, am holding on 4e minutes. ???

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

@justflycom, Running out of patience with you over a refund that am due since early April. After numerous Chatbot conversations over the past 6 weeks, I resorted to phone support, but it's the same. Earlier today I held on for 27 minutes. Right now, am holding on 4e minutes. ???

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

What a story! 👏🏾💪🏾

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Brooklyn, 1952. Judith Love Cohen, 19, asks her high school counselor about math classes.
The counselor smiles like she’s talking to a child. “Honey, nice girls go to finishing school. Learn to pour tea.”

Judith enrolls in Brooklyn College. Engineering.
Hundreds in the lecture hall. Women: one. Her.
“Boys laughed when I raised my hand,” she said. “So I raised it higher.”

She transfers to USC. Finishes bachelor’s + master’s. Never sees another female engineering student.
Graduates 1957. Class of 800. Women: 8.
America’s engineers: 0.05% women. She’s one of them.

Then NASA calls.

1960s. Apollo needs brains. Gender? Secondary. Competence? Everything.

Judith joins the team building the Abort-Guidance System for the Lunar Module. The AGS. The “oh crap” button. If the main computer dies, this box flies you home. Or you don’t come home.

“It had to work,” she said. “Because if you needed it, you were already dying.”

Orbital mechanics. Electrical chaos. Code that can’t glitch. She lives in equations for months.

August 1968. Nine months pregnant. Still at her desk.
Coworkers: “Go home, Judith.”
Judith: “The math isn’t due. I am.”

Morning contractions start. She grabs her printouts — pages of trajectories, circuits, logic — and drives to work.
Contractions get real. Team: “HOSPITAL. NOW.”
Judith: “Fine.” Takes the printouts.

Hospital bed. Nurses walk in. She’s between contractions, scribbling on computer sheets. “Ma’am, you’re in labor.”
“I’m in math,” she says.

Then it clicks. The final bug in the AGS. Solved.
Then she pushes. Baby boy: Thomas Jacob. You know him as Jack Black.

Next day she calls her boss. “I fixed the guidance problem.” Pause. “Oh. And the baby came too.”

April 13, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth. BOOM.

Apollo 13. Oxygen tank explodes. Command Module dying. Three men crawl into the Lunar Module — built for 2 people, 1 day. They need it for 3 people, 4 days.

Primary computer stutters.
Backup comes alive.
Judith’s AGS.

It holds. Calculates burns. Aligns spacecraft. Verifies they’re not flying into deep space forever. “Without AGS, we don’t come home,” said Jim Lovell later.

April 17, 1970. Splashdown. Alive.
The world cheers the astronauts.
Inside NASA, engineers hug. “The backup worked.”
Judith’s backup.

Apollo 13 crew visits TRW to say thanks. Judith shakes their hands. No speech. Back to work.

She keeps going.

Hubble Space Telescope systems. TDRS satellites — ran 40 years. Papers. Patents. Mentors girls. Writes kids’ books: You Can Be a Woman Engineer. “Girls need to see it to be it,” she said. “TV gave them lawyers. I’ll give them astronauts.”

Raised four kids. Danced ballet with the Met Opera while doing engineering school. “My first loves,” her son Neil wrote, “were dancing and equations.”

July 25, 2016. Age 82. She’s gone.
Son Jack Black posts 2019: Photo of Mom, 1959, next to a Pioneer spacecraft. “My mom literally helped save Apollo 13. Finished the problem IN LABOR WITH ME. How do you top that?”

The counselor said “finishing school.”
Judith chose “finishing equations.”
Three astronauts owe their lives to that choice.

“They said I didn’t belong,” Judith said once. “So I built something that belonged in space. And brought them home.”

She never flew. But she made sure others could.
From a hospital bed. Between contractions. With a pencil.

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

OMG! She taught me at CAST, now UTech. Condolences to her family. May her soul rest in peace. I imagine she will continue to dance in the heavenly realm.

[NDTC of Jamaica @NDTCJAMAICA]

The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica, NDTC, mourns the passing of former principal dancer Mrs. Noelle Chutkan, a cherished member of the company’s family whose life, artistry, and spirit formed part of the rich tapestry of the NDTC’s history and legacy.

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

@Raptors 😭😭😭

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

Congratulations and Happy 100th birthday Dr. Gilmour! Your name was a household name when I was growing up in 🇯🇲! May you live to see many more happy years. 💃🏾

[Andrew Holness @AndrewHolnessJM]

100 years of life. A lifetime of service.

Today, we celebrate Dr. Mavis Gilmour on her 100th birthday. Before entering Parliament, she was a pioneer in medicine as the first woman surgeon in the Caribbean. This background in healthcare preceded a long career in public office focused on building national institutions.

As Minister of Education and later Minister of Social Security during the 1980s, Dr. Gilmour led the expansion of the Jamaican school system and managed the country's social safety nets. Her work included advancing consumer affairs and social protection programmes to support people across our island.

From the operating theatre to the Cabinet, her journey has been defined by "service above self." Today, Jamaica recognizes her contributions to our national systems and celebrates a full century of her impact.

Happy 100th Birthday, Dr. Gilmour.

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

And Dr. Martin Luther King said, “In Jamaica I feel like a human being!” 💪🏾

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

In 1948 50,000 #Jamaicans went to see Paul Robeson speak and sing at Race Course (now National Heroes Park). He wrote: “These people saw in me not a singer, or not just a singer. They called to me: 'Hello, Paul. We know you‘ve been fighting for us.’”

Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976), legendary American singer, actor, activist, born 128 years ago today. #PaulRobeson
https://t.co/wF8QUVuEmY

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

Way to create history @Raptors! What a win!! 🏀

[Basketball Forever @bballforever_]

The Raptors just went on a 31-0 RUN against the Magic 🫨

That’s the longest unanswered scoring run in NBA HISTORY 🔥🦖

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

Ditto! #BlueJays50

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

Dear Toronto Blue Jays fans at Rogers Centre:

Thank you for (mostly) playing it classy tonight, and resisting the temptation to boo the American anthem.

While I'm as livid at America as you are, I'm glad you didn't.

Because I noticed some American players on our team were singing the Canadian anthem, with reverence, and solemn respect.

Your decision to take the high road made it easier for them to do that.

You created a beautiful, powerful moment of mutual respect.

You reminded me our problem is with Donald Trump, and not most Americans.

Bravo.
#BlueJays

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

Gimé embraced it 🤣
Kaz didn’t see it 😅

The first Water Dump is a DOUBLE!

[Jamaica Observer @JamaicaObserver]

SPOTTED: 🇯🇲NBC’s TODAY Show co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones, award-winning actress Sheryl-Lee Ralph and dancehall legend Shaggy were on set Wednesday, at @SandalsDunnsRiver bringing star power to production.

Filming a multi-day feature series, the world is about to get an immersive taste of everything Jamaica has to offer, powered by @visitjamaica and @SandalsResorts.

#Shaggy #Sandals #JamaicaObserver #AlwaysAhead #NBC

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

💔🇨🇦💔

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

More than 200 pilots and flight attendants gathered outside Air Canada’s headquarters in the rain and cold to honour fallen pilot Antoine Forest as his body was returned to his family. ❤️🕊

[MLB @MLB]

Kevin Gausman sets a @BlueJays #OpeningDay record with 11 punchouts!

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

Yes! #bluejays50 ⚾️🧢

[Dan the man 🇨🇦 🏒🏖 @danwarren6]

this will be all of us tonight

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

.@wcchen, did you see this? 🏏

[DaisyWright-CertifiedCareerCoach @CareerTips2Go]

Thank you! He started at Holmwood! Don't forget that!! 🤪

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

Oblique Seville, #Jamaican sprinter, born 25 years ago today on 16 Mar 2001. Won World Championships 100m Gold 2025 Tokyo; 4x100m Bronze 2023 Budapest. Calabar High School alumnus; coached by Glen Mills at Racers Track Club. #ObliqueSeville #Jamaica #Caribbean
https://t.co/DuExylBMtF