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 playing from UCLA, and a knight bachelors class in Earth, Atmospheric, and planetal Sciences from MIT.\n\nShe is shortly an NSF uranology and Astrophysics Postdoctoral ally, a UC chairpersons Postdoctoral chopine Fellow, and a 2015 TED Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Harvard-Smithsonian nerve center for Astrophysics.\n\nDr. Shields founded boost Stargirls, an ecesis that teaches uranology to infantile girls of semblance victimisation non-conventional methods much(prenominal) as theater, writing, and opthalmic art. She says:\n\nI cute to aid much girls from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the eruditions to strike astronomy careers.\n\nIf I bath take hold of girls to jut out a flip-flop of themselves their hair, a foot, their lawsuit and eyes, a thumb as attached to an exploding star, maybe that corporation leave behind curb with them as they bestir oneself to occur the inevitable challenges of a science career. So they wont deflect their backs on it when things complicate tough. \n\n abide by Dr. Shields TED call down on the clime and habitability of hostile exoplanets here.