For the Future of Women in Science, Look to the Past | Nathalia Holt | TEDxPasadenaWomen

Nathalia Holt, author of "Rise of the Rocket Girls," inspires with key lessons from NASA's female pioneers. Artfully, Dr. Holt translates each historical reference into evidence for modern workplace reform and reiterates a powerful need for female mentorship. The long forgotten success of these frontier women in science transcends their generation, setting forth important lessons about how to recruit and retain women in science today as masterfully as it was done fifty years ago.
Nathalia Holt Ph.D. is a science writer and bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, in which she chronicles an elite group of women’s’ contributions to rocket design, space exploration, and the first American satellite.
Her second book: Cured: The People who Defeated HIV, recounts the story of two patients, each known in medical history as the Berlin Patient, who were cured of the HIV virus. One review states: “Nathalia Holt presents a thorough account of the research that provides scientists with hope that a cure will one day be achievable… and her empathy shines through in her prose. This is as important a social history as it is a medical document.”
Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science and Time.
Nathalia trained at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, Harvard University, University of Southern California and Tulane Univ
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@elizabethperdue9259]

Thank you, Nathalia, for seeking out my Aunt Barbara and writing their story. It has been wonderful to see the recognition brought to these deserving women. My mother worked at JPL also but not in the same capacity as Aunt Barbara. My mother was a secretary there. And as a child growing up, I always thought Aunt Barbara was too! Of course, her work was secret and I truly didn't grasp the impact she and her colleagues had on this world until your book was published.

[@ivonnelopez8203]

This is really inspiring. This is why women need to speak up and recognize the power we have!

[@theflowerhead]

Great job, we need intelligent advocates.

[@mariamyacoub607]

So relevant 7 years later

[@Michigan-man]

Amogus amogus

[@hillsophie334]

crispy