Dr. Aomawa Shields Featured in INSIDER Article

Dr. Aomawa Shields is featured in INSIDER article, “I’m one of only 26 Black women astrophysicists in America. Acting helped me overcome the stereotypes I felt as a woman of color in STEM.”, for her memoir, Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding my Place in the Universe.

Excerpt from article, credit to INSIDER:

“This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Dr. Aomawa Shields, an astronomer, astrobiologist, and associate professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine. She is just one of 26 Black women astrophysicists in America.”