We’re speaking today with Dr. Kinjal Sethuraman who is Assistant Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at the University of Maryland and Past President of AWAEM from 2017-2018. She speaks about how AWAEM has been her “life vest,” and how being a part of AWAEM has influenced how she writes, negotiates, and how often she thinks about what other people think of her, which happens to be very little— and also makes her my hero. Read the interview highlights here.