We wanted to know more about the real women who inspired those bright orange sculptures on the National Mall. So, we chatted with a spaceflight engineer, a human-rights statistician, and others depicted in the exhibit.
, an initiative that aims to connect girls with female leaders in science and technology. Through March 27, the statues can be found at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, the National Museum of Natural History, the National Air and Space Museum, and the Enid Haupt Garden.
The spaceflight engineer has been working at NASA for nearly three decades. Though she didn’t know any engineers with disabilities when she was growing up, Bolles says that didn’t discourage her. Instead, she says, “That drove my desire to be independent and also to be able to support myself.” Still, she wants other young people to have better representation.
As a human rights statistician at the Minderoo Foundation’s Walk Free initiative, a group focused on eradicating modern slavery, Davina Durgana uses analytical models to track human trafficking and make policy recommendations in order to protect vulnerable communities, such as young kids, from modern slavery. At Walk Free, she co-authored the Global Slavery Index, a report that calculates human trafficking in each country and assesses and ranks government responses.
Known as “Dr. Tay,” Jones hosts youth-oriented educational programs, such as “Young Scientist Wednesday” at Children’s National Hospital, and she also uses YouTube and TikTok as platforms to teach kids science concepts through at-home experiments. And after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, she launched “
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