What’s Inspiring Her Now: With Villanova’s Narda Quigley

Being a well-informed person is an important part of my job as an educator and, more broadly, as a participant in our democracy—but this can be really difficult as a woman and a minority in 2019.

I try to balance out some of the toxicity that I encounter with things that inspire me—sports, books, music, art, and progressive ideas.

These divergent sources help me remember to be positive, curious, and approach my life with joy:

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team and the fight for equal pay
The WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association)
Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg
The Hidden Brain podcast on NPR, hosted by Shankar Vedantam
The Life of Langston Hughes, a two-volume biography by Arnold Rampersad—Highly recommend to anyone interested in the poet, history of the 20^thcentury, and race relations in the U.S. and abroad. It’s really fascinating and readable. I just started Volume 2.

The Seattle-based independent record label Sub Pop. It’s a great talent incubator. I love the band Tacocat’s new release, called “This Mess is a Place.”

Narda Quigley is Professor of Management at the Villanova School of Business at Villanova University. Her research interests include work groups and teams; multilevel issues; motivation; emergent and cross-cultural leadership; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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