Lucinda Jackson, scientist and business executive, spent almost fifty years at three universities and four Fortune 500 companies where she experienced and witnessed the unequal treatment of women. This spurred her to write Just a Girl about how to change that dynamic and how to help women find their power. After moving on from academia and corporate America, Jackson tells about the tough transition from career to retirement in her latest book Project Escape. She has published articles, book chapters, magazine columns, and is featured on podcasts and radio. After growing up on the West Coast, she received her PhD in science in Illinois and continued speaking and serving on boards of academic, nonprofit, and industry organizations worldwide. She loves her fantastic women friends, reading, exercise (yoga, skiing, hiking, biking, swimming), and helping others. After Peace Corps volunteerism in Palau and teaching science in Mexico, Jackson and her husband returned to their home near San Francisco. They are immensely proud of their three liberated sons who are scattered around the globe. Jackson is the founder of LJ Ventures, where she speaks and consults on energy and the environment and empowering women (and men!) in the workplace and in our Next Act.