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Having a #mentor is important at all stages of your career, no matter what that career path is. Further, acting as a mentor to someone else can be incredibly fulfilling!
Mentoring is a collaborative process in which mentee and mentor engage in reciprocal and dynamic activities.
Who is a mentor? Well, mentors tend to be older individuals such as teachers, coaches, or other trusted individuals.
But anyone can be a mentor. And we shouldn’t discount the importance and value of peer mentoring relationships!
So what does mentoring look like in #scicomm? When I think about my mentors in this realm, I think of a journalism professor I had in graduate school, as well as my editor-in-chief at @AwakeAliveMind
I have also been a mentor. Last summer, I was a mentor to a high school student interested in science writing in the Curious Science Writers program ( @cSciencewriters) - this was an awesome experience!
You can find your own mentor through organizations such as @ScienceWriters - for instance, they had a virtual mentoring program last summer. Check out the link here: https://www.nasw.org/VirtualMentoring
During the Science Writers 2020 conference, I signed up for the #SciWriMentoring session so that I could be paired with a more experienced science writer to learn about their path in the world of #scicomm
These opportunities are out there, both as a mentor and a mentee, but you have to actively seek them out!
