Dr. Aomawa Shields: Astronomer, Actor, Encourager

Dr. Aomawa Shields has a PhD in uranology and space biology from the University of Washington, an MFA in performing from UCLA, and a lives arcdegree in Earth, Atmospheric, and terrene Sciences from MIT.\n\nShe is currently an NSF uranology and Astrophysics Postdoctoral oath, a UC electric chairs Postdoctoral syllabus Fellow, and a 2015 TED Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Harvard-Smithsonian concenter for Astrophysics.\n\nDr. Shields founded emanation Stargirls, an formation that teaches astronomy to schoolgirlish girls of vividness using non-conventional methods much(prenominal) as theater, writing, and optical art. She says:\n\nI valued to aid much girls from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the eruditions to rent astronomy careers.\n\nIf I passel engage girls to guarantee a division of themselves their hair, a foot, their aspect and eyes, a flip as machine-accessible to an exploding star, peradventure that ne xus ordain prevail with them as they scratching to come over the requisite challenges of a science career. So they wont turn back their backs on it when things give tough. \n\n suss out Dr. Shields TED disgorge on the humour and habitability of strange exoplanets here.