Recruiting Community Podcast - CXR Foundation 2026 INSPIRE Scholarship Winner

Adela, Manager of Talent Acquisition at Edwards Lifesciences and doctoral student at Gonzaga University, joins us as a recipient of the CXR Foundation INSPIRE Scholarship. We get to know Adela - a first-generation college graduate and bicultural Indigenous woman whose personal experience with access and opportunity shapes everything she does. Adela makes the case that recruiting must evolve from a purely operational function into something more strategic and human-centered, where fairness, access, and dignity are built into whatever comes next.