Author and award-winning astronomer Dr. Aomawa Shields discusses her book Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe, a story of creating a life that makes space for joy, love, and wonder while being driven by one of our biggest questions: Is anybody else out there?
In Life on Other Planets, Dr. Shields chronicles an honest account of challenges from navigating gender roles, to confronting systemic racism, to entering motherhood later than most of her peers, all while following her passion and creativity.
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For more information on Dr. Shields, please visit https://aomawashields.com/.
Aomawa Shields is an astronomer, an astrobiologist, the Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, and a classically trained actor. She was named a 2015 TED Fellow and is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a NASA Habitable Worlds program grant, among others. She is the founder and director of Rising Stargirls, a program dedicated to encouraging girls of all colors and backgrounds to learn, explore, and discover the universe using theater, writing, and visual art.
Moderated by Jennifer Fernick.