Introduction

Amber Charlebois, Renée Cole, Cecilia Marzabadi, Gail Webster, Kim Woznack

Safety Chapter

Megan Grunert

The Best Job in the World

Stacey F. Bent

Equilibrium and Stress: Balancing One Marriage, a Two-Body Problem, and Three Children

Stacey Lowery Bretz

If at First You Don't Succeed, Don't Give Up on Your Dreams

Pamela Ann McElroy Brown

Invictus

Amanda Bryant-Friedrich

My Circus: Please Note That I Have No Formal Training in Juggling

Amber Flynn Charlebois

Planned Serendipity

Renée Cole

Readymade Family

Mary Ann Crawford

Mother and Community College Professor

Elizabeth Dorland

From Pre-med to U.S. Professor of the Year: My Personal Journey

Amina K. El-Ashmawy

Minha Vida e Minha Carreira e Minha Família (My Life and My Career and My Family)

Isabel C. Escobar

Chemistry in the Family

Cheryl B. Frech

Are You Always This Enthusiastic?

Jennifer Heemstra

How Motherhood Shaped My Professorship

Jani Ingram

Upward Bound to a Ph.D. in Chemistry

Judith Iriarte-Gross

I'm.a.Gene- Destined for a Career in the Sciences

Margaret I. Kanipes

It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done

Sunghee Lee

On Breastfeeding, Supramolecular Chemistry, and Long Commutes: Life as an Assistant Professor, Wife, and Busy Mother of Three

Mindy Levine

The Window of Opportunity

Nancy Levinger

Pieces of a Puzzle

Sherri Lovelace-Cameron

Wanting It All

Cecilia Marzabadi

On Our Own Terms

Sara Mason

Family First, Extraordinary Career

Saundra McGuire

Family Matters: How Family Influenced my Career

Jin Montclare

Mother and Chemist: Every pitfall is an opportunity to rise with a new beginning

Ingrid Montes-González

Taking an Unconventional Route?

Janet Morrow

The path to academia and motherhood: It takes a village

Emily Niemeyer

Elements to Successful Motherhood and the Professoriate

Sherine O. Obare

A Family Grows

Patricia Redden

Teacher to Scientist and Back Again

Rachel Rigsby

A Divinely Ordered Path

Renã A. S. Robinson

Raising three children across three continents

Omowunmi Sadik

Ebony and Women and Science....... Oh My!

Darlene K. Taylor

From the Periodic Table to the Dinner Table

Danielle Tullman-Ercek

The Bigger Picture: My Journey to a Purposeful Life and Career in Academia

Idalis Villanueva

Encounters of the Positive Kind

Michelle Ward

The Long and Winding Road

Gail Hartmann Webster

I Finally Know What I Want to Be When I Grow Up

Catherine O. Welder

Finding Rhythm

Leyte Winfield

My Not-So-Secret Double-Life as a Chemistry Professor and Mom

Kimberly Woznack

Remarkable, Delightful, Awesome: It Will Change Your Life, Not Overnight but Over Time

Sherry Yennello