a beautiful way of thinking

Posted: July 24th, 2015 | Tags: | Comments Off on a beautiful way of thinking
Claudia Alexander had a pioneering role in the Galileo mission and was NASA’s scientist on the international Rosetta project. Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times

. Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times

In an interview last year with The Los Angeles Times, she recalled that as a black woman in a field dominated by white men, “I’m used to walking between two different cultures.”

“For me,” she added, “this is among the purposes of my life — to take us from states of ignorance to states of understanding with bold exploration that you can’t do every day.”

 


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