Her Story
About Keianna
Keianna Page is a professor in Florida with six years of experience in education. She currently teaches 10th grade as well as college-level lecture and lab courses while working part-time and seeking a full-time professor role. Her main area of expertise is biology, and her career path is aimed at becoming an epidemiologist. Page holds a master's degree in biology and is working on her PhD in health sciences, with a dissertation focused on Alzheimer's and dementia. Prior to her current path, she worked as a pharmacy technician and a real estate agent. She also runs a full-time tutoring business. Page attributes her drive to her childhood goal of becoming a doctor, pursuing multiple degrees along the way as a safeguard. She is a member of the National Honor Society and values family above all.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Keianna
01What do you attribute your success to?
My drive comes from always wanting to be a doctor since I was a young girl. The route wasn't med school at first, I wanted to be a pharmacist too, but ultimately my goal was to become a doctor. I tried different routes and wanted to achieve all the degrees along the way, like bachelor's and master's, in case something fell off with the PhD program.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Everyone tells me to keep going, keep going, just don't stop, just keep going. Like, you're doing good, it seems like it's a lot, but keep going.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Make sure it's something that you actually want to do. Set long-term goals, because if this is somewhere that you probably may not want to be there, you may think that that's what you want to do, and eventually you may branch off somewhere else. Use that if you have to as a placeholder, because you can make connections there as well, and just use it as a learning experience.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Challenges would be basically my schedule, trying to excel on my own, so being a full-time PhD student, working full-time with a tutoring business, and then I have a child, so a lot.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Family.
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