Cathy MazakCathy Mazak was a tenured, full professor when she founded a writing coaching company for women professors, researchers, and doctoral students. Cathy and her team are dedicated to changing the way that academic women leverage writing and publiation to create the careers and lives they want through courses and group coaching programs. Cathy has a PhD from Michigan State University and is the editor of several scholarly collections and the author of numerous textbooks and academic journal articles. In her work as a professor at The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez she attracted external funding for her work in bilingualism and higher education and co-founded a research center. Her popular podcast, Academic Women Amplified, teaches how to use writing to resist the racist, ableist, patriarchal culture of academia. Cathy lives in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.