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 20thcentury, 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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