High fit

Volume controls how strongly you project your thoughts into the world. Kate Manne arrived at Cornell as a new assistant professor and could have kept her head down and focused on academic publishing. Instead, she turned the volume up — she coined terms like 'himpathy' that entered mainstream discourse, she shared students' stories publicly with their consent, and she appeared on a major podcast to speak directly to millions of people about institutional failure. She made a deliberate choice to be loud.