Summary: Melissa Fischer is a supervising engineer for the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts. But lately, they’re probably better known as a novelist. Their novel, “The Advocacy,” has earned rave reviews – Kirkus Reviews called the protagonist, Louisa Lehmann “a delightful, complicated character” and the Southern Literary Review called the book “profound.”<br> Fischer talks about the novel, why it was something they spent 25 years working on and how it’s helped make them a better civil engineer.<br> And in Student Ambassadors, we get a rundown on some favorite ASCE memories.<br> Listen to the episode below, and subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts.<br> <br> * <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1441824662" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS</a><br> * <a href="https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/I46kwkz6iqxfri2vpd6yw44zmey" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SUBSCRIBE IN GOOGLE PLAY</a><br> * <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/62xibwsvBKxFieLJIIAWBB" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SUBSCRIBE IN SPOTIFY</a><br> * <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/american-society-of-civil-engineers/asce-plot-points" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SUBSCRIBE IN STITCHER</a><br> <br>
