Your Biggest Competitive Advantage Is Your Authentic Self feat. Takeya Green ‘22
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From the moment Takeya Green stepped off the plane to visit Rice, she knew Houston was the city for her. The Chicago native earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After getting her undergraduate degree in 2014, she joined Dow, in Freeport, TX, as a lead production engineer. She then joined Olin as a site logistics engineer in 2017, where she led an operations team of 40+ people.
After graduating in 2022, Takeya joined Citi as an investment banking associate in Houston, Texas. She works for the oil and gas and clean energy sectors.
With our host Scott Gale ‘19, Takeya shares her incredible journey from the chemical engineering lecture halls of a top-ranked program to the control rooms of world-scale chemical manufacturing facilities and from NRG Stadium cheering for the Houston Texans to now an investment banking career focused on clean energy.
She also reflects on being a Black woman in the STEM fields and overcoming the challenges placed in front of her, to being honored this year by the Texas Business Hall of Fame as a local leader.
The Owl Have You Know Podcast is a production of Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business and is produced by University FM.
Episode Quotes:
On being your authentic self
Your authentic self is your superpower
On winning an award from the Texas Business Hall of Fame
On living in Houston
03:47 - I ended up doing Dow because I wanted to live in Houston. Houston has always been a city that, out of all the cities I ever went to, I just felt like I was supposed to be here.Show Links:
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Check out this episode featuring Professor Anastasia Zavyalova here: https://business.rice.edu/owlhaveyouknow/season-3-episode-10
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