Rosario Scholar — Strategic Support for the Tenure Track

When in academia you feel pressure to endure, you have an invitation to create instead.

As an NSF CAREER awardee, faculty mentor, and Associate Professor, my work is to help early-career scholars accept that invitation while building the careers they came into academia to build.

My Journey

Starting as an Assistant Professor, I faced the complexities of the tenure track while balancing the demands of academia. Securing an NSF CAREER Award was transformative for my research and career. Unlike many peers, I did not earn my Ph.D. in the U.S., which meant I had to learn the U.S. research system from the ground up. This experience gave me a unique perspective on navigating these systems and their expectations. Now, as an Associate Professor, I am here to help you navigate your own journey with insight and empathy.

My Goal

I believe the key to a sustainable academic career is the quiet, deliberate work of aligning what you do with who you are becoming. My goal is to help you build a tenure trajectory that succeeds on the metrics that matter and sustains the scholar you actually want to be.

The Invitation

You came into academia for reasons that matter to you. Somewhere on the tenure track, those reasons can get harder to remember. The path I walked is one I now share, as a companion who has been where you are, so the years you spend earning tenure also build the career you actually want to live.

My approach — What I am sharing

The Thriving Scholar and the NSF CAREER Blueprint are the two frameworks I have built over a decade of teaching, research, and mentorship. The Thriving Scholar is about navigating the tenure track sustainably. The NSF CAREER Blueprint is about writing a competitive CAREER proposal. Both are grounded in lived experience and reviewer-side insight.

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How The Thriving Scholar works

A guided process for scholars who want to build a career that lasts.

A Structured Path Forward

Move through a deliberate sequence of questions that clarify your vision, your strategy, and your next step.

Guidance From Lived Experience

Receive perspective from an NSF CAREER awardee, NSF panel reviewer, and Associate Professor who has navigated the same path.

A Practical Approach

Spend less time stuck in your head. The work produces decisions, drafts, and direction you can act on.

Sustainable, on Your Own Terms

Build the career you came into academia to build, with the energy and clarity to keep going.

The NSF CAREER Blueprint offers:

What you will have at the end

Have a complete, competitive draft of your NSF CAREER proposal.
Be ready to submit a proposal that reflects your unique vision and broader contributions.
Gain valuable skills and direction to advance your academic career.
Identify additional funding opportunities that align with your research goals, even if the NSF CAREER Award is not the perfect fit.

Working together one-on-one

Personalized to where you are

Some scholars begin with a vague vision and need help shaping it. Others arrive with a near-final draft and need someone to pressure-test the logic and surface what reviewers will read between the lines. The work meets you where you are, not where a template assumes you should be.

Feedback from someone like you

Feedback from a working scientist who has written, won, and reviewed CAREER proposals while building a research program and navigating the tenure track. The guidance comes from someone who has lived the same constraints you are living, and names what reviewers actually read.

Book a 15-minute consultation to ensure this service is for you.

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Here is how we can work together:

NSF CAREER Consulting

$420 per hour

1:1 sessions tailored to your CAREER proposal
Strategy from someone who has written and won a CAREER
NSF panel review experience that informs how I read proposals
Guidance on research-education integration, the section most often weak in CAREER drafts
Honest feedback at any stage, from early vision through final submission

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The Thriving Scholar

Cohort Program

What we cover:

Finding your why in academia
Strategic career design
Sustainable productivity
Community and support
Integration and forward commitment

What is included:

Application-based, small cohort
Written for assistant professors in their first three years on the tenure track

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The NSF CAREER Blueprint

Cohort Program

A cohort program for assistant professors preparing NSF CAREER proposals. The next cohort opens in 2027.

Participants leave with a complete draft, a research-education integration plan that holds together, and a clear submission strategy.

Need support before 2027?

Explore 1:1 NSF CAREER Consulting or inquire about custom workshops.

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Strategic support for the tenure track, without burning out.