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Based on occupied Ramaytush Ohlone and Lenni-Lenape land, today @JKXcomics would like to highlight and honor Diné #WomenInSTEM scientist Dr Katrina Claw (@/drkatclaw on twitter) for #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, a professor @CUAnschultz.
Dr. Claw is a geneticist by training, earning her PhD and postdoctoral training from @uofwa. Her science focuses on indigenous communities where she can best act as a conduit between Native knowledge and western science and be the representation for other #IndigenousInSTEM.
As a postdoc, her research focused on vitamin deficiency in Alaskan Natives. Now Dr. Claw’s lab focuses on understanding drug responses in Indigenous communities to improve personalized medicine and we was recently awarded the 2020 Genomic Innovator Award for her efforts.
Thank you for being a role model and all that you do Dr. Claw!
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Today, JKX Celebrates the amazing work of Mary Golda Ross an engineer and mathematician at Lockheed Corporation. She is the first Indigenous (Cherokee) woman engineer and her research focuses on aerospace design for space travel.
Mary received her degree in mathematics at Northeastern State Teachers’ College and a master’s degree at the University of Northern Colorado. She was recruited as a mathematician at Lockheed and was part of the “Skunk Works” team, a selective group where she was the only Indigenous person and woman of the team.
At Lockheed, she worked on aerospace designs for interplanetary space travel. She published her work in the “NASA Planetary Flight Handbook Vol. III” on space travel to Mars and Venus. While her work is classified, Mary’s says she was “taking the theoretical and making it real.“
Mary promotes women in STEM through the Society of Women Engineers and American Indians in Sciences Engineering Society. Thank you, Mary Golda Ross, for your out of the world research!
Learn more about Mary Golda Ross here:
https://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2009/10/mary-g-ross-blazed-a-trail-in-the-sky-as-a-woman-engineer-in-the-space-race-celebrated-museum-.html<%22>
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ALT Text: Portrait of Mary Golda Ross. Left of portrait is an animated GIF of rockets flying from Earth to Venus and Mars.
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Continue celebrating Native American Heritage Month now and throughout the year with these amazing YA books that we have at the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library! There is still time to participate in the American Indian Library Association’s Read Native 2021 challenge of which you can earn prizes as you read books by and about Native Americans. To find out more, go to: https://ailanet.org/readnative21/
To help you celebrate Native American Heritage Month, here is a great YA thriller for you to check out at the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library! Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, a Native American author, is one of our newer YA books and is the author’s debut novel. There are plans for the book to be adapted at Netflix for TV next year with President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground. To learn more about the author, go to https://angelineboulley.com/.
Happy Native American Heritage Month! I based this drawing off Hikaru Tanaka’s illustrations for the ending credits of Outlaw Star. I love all the media that has been created around Afrofuturism, so I wanted to play around with some Native American/scifi art themes.
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