Celebrate Diversity Month: This is me, Tavleen
Last updated on April 4Meet Tavleen
Meet Tavleen, a Canada Gas engineering intern, who shared her experience as a neurodiverse, queer woman of colour in engineering.
我叫Tavleen，我是加拿大天然气管道完整性团队的一名威尼斯电玩城手游工程师. Outside of work, 作为西部大学火箭团队的一员，我喜欢利用业余时间制造火箭, specializing in propulsion systems. 我也喜欢在健身房举重，写日记，和我爱的人共度美好时光.
我是印度人——特别是旁遮普人——从小就信奉锡克教. I feel proud to be both Punjabi and a woman. For example, 我喜欢我奶奶给威尼斯电玩城手游的食物调味的方式——当她为威尼斯电玩城手游做饭时，你总能感受到她对威尼斯电玩城手游的爱. 我喜欢我妈妈以前给我头上抹油的样子，我也喜欢威尼斯电玩城手游盛大的印度婚礼. When I was younger, I tried to push away my culture, but it was always there waiting for me to embrace it. My culture will always be a part of me, and it’s loud and proud.
被认定为患有注意力缺陷/多动障碍(ADHD)的有色人种酷儿女性, I have come a long way in feeling confident in myself. 成长的过程中, I’ve faced discrimination many times whether it was against my culture, 外观, sexuality or gender. 现在，作为一名旁遮普女性，在男性主导的工程领域，融入可能是一项挑战. But I truly love science and engineering, and at work I lean on my technical abilities as an engineer to succeed. I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 15 years old, and while it comes with its own set of challenges in the workplace, 我很幸运能成为这个团队的一员，这个团队鼓励我带着骄傲拥抱真实的自我，倾听我需要的东西，让我感到被重视和被赋权.
Diversity and representation can have such a lasting, positive impact. When I was a child, a woman scientist gave a presentation at my school and to this day, I still associate the word “scientist” with “woman.“我很高兴有一天威尼斯电玩城手游可以环顾四周，欣赏威尼斯电玩城手游周围的多样性——可见的或不可见的——作为威尼斯电玩城手游的优势. 我期待着有一天，从事这项工作的手是什么颜色的，或者是谁的手，或者他们的文化背景是什么，或者他们的身份如何，都不再重要.