The First Female Chief of Police in Windsor Ontario: Pam Mizuno

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Women In STEM Speaker Series St.Clair College

Genesis Entrepreneurship Centre

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The Women in STEM Club Speaker Series Podcast is brought to you by the Genesis Entrepreneurship Centre, at St. Clair College and hosted by Sue Taylor, the Program Manager of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Student Experience. Through interviews with women who have excelled in male-dominated industries & environments, women who are leaders, and women that serve to inspire, this podcast aims to support and foster young women, showing them that they can accomplish all they set out to achieve (and then some).

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The First Female Chief of Police in Windsor Ontario: Pam Mizuno

Women In STEM Speaker Series St.Clair College

25 minutes 11 seconds

3 years ago

The First Female Chief of Police in Windsor Ontario: Pam Mizuno

Welcome to the St. Clair College Women in STEM speaker series Podcast, brought to you by the Genesis Entrepreneurship Centre, located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

This episode features the first female, Chief of Police in Windsor Ontario, Pam Mizuno. Born in Toronto, and raised in Brampton, Pam then moved to Kingston as the head coach of a gymnastics club. After attending the University of Windsor for their Social Work program, she then got hired onto the police force, and finished her degree while she was working. Pam was hired on as a Cadet in 1994 and has since moved through various areas in the police force including traffic follow-up, human rights projects, sergeant, patrol officer, investigative unit, and now Chief of Police.

Pam shares her journey getting into the police force, having to prove herself in a male-dominated field, the many opportunities out there for women in STEM, and much more.

Tune in to hear more about Pam’s story including:

The percentage of women in the police force now compared to when she joined
When she knew this was the job for her & the impact this industry has on people
Who has influenced her throughout her career
Finding work-life balance
Advice she would have told her 19-year-old self

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