Empowering Future Female Scientists: Founding She Leads STEM

As a high school student, starting a non-profit organization was never something that was on my list of goals. I didn’t even think it was possible. However, during my junior year, I grew a passion for learning about the STEM gender gap and I realized all the ways which I could help bridge that gap in my own community. 

I started reading about the STEM gender gap in the Science Research class with Dr. Schuchman (you can start taking this class your sophomore year). It was something I was always intrigued by, especially because science is my favorite subject in school. I remember reading about an experiment that was done where children were asked to draw pictures of scientists. There were only 28 pictures of a female scientist out of 4,807, and all of these 28 drawings were drawn by girls. Every fact I read about women in science made me more motivated to make a change in our community.