I am thrilled and honored to be featured as a role model on The Curiosity Science Program website, an amazing organization created by Erin McKenney that highlights women across the globe in STEM professions. As she describes it:
"I created this STEM program for young women, starting as a Girl Scout Gold Award program. It is used by several nonprofits in New England and a few small groups globally. It also received BBC recognition in 2016.
The program is based off of interactive lab activities and role modeling. It makes such a huge difference for girls to have positive examples that they can relate to. We did this by having female STEM professionals from around the world write to my students about their careers, any advice they'd give, and what else they enjoy doing (to give girls more ways to relate to them and show them a variety of other interests)."
Erin asked me to include my perspective on life as a doctor after seeing my post for International Women's Day on Pantsuit Nation. While many aspects of the letter are found on my blog, it is exciting to compile everything together. It was even more awe-inspiring to read about other women out there tackling stereotypes around the world, from an American volcanologist to a Mexican virologist and a British information technologist (from which she earned her dame-ship, the equivalent of knighthood). Check out all the incredible letters here at: https://curiositygirlsscience.wordpress.com/blog/
Lastly, congratulations and a big thank you to Erin for all of your hard work in creating this program. Best of luck to all the young women out there.
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