Mae Jemison career is a great story, how a little girls dreams and ambitions that took her to the stars literally. This is a great story for young girls who challenge the gender lines on what a girl can and cant do.
Mae Jemison Bio
Mae Jemison was born in my favorite country town Decatur, Alabama in 1956. When Mae was three (3) years old her family moved to Chicago, Illinois. As a child Mae liked science a lot from studied nature and connect science to nature. Every since Mae was a little girl she wanted to be a scientist. Mae once said she was inspired by a saying of the late great Dr. Martian Luther King "a dream is not a elusive fantasy but a call to duty." Mae Jemison was adventures young girl, but was also very practical, she loved the arts and at age eleven (11) she also took up dance African and Japanese. She also done some acting in high school.
At age sixteen (16) she went Stanford University and major in chemical engineer. She also studied African and African American studies. Mae said she was grateful to finish Stanford due to racist attitudes of some professors! In graduated school she traveled to Cuba, Kenya and Thailand. She also took dance class at the African- American school of dance Alvin Ailey.
She joined the peace corps she volunteered and worked in Liberia and Sierra Leona. She saved a volunteer's life.
She applied to NASA in 1983, but was accepted in 1987. She worked at the Kennedy Space Shuttle in Florida. She worked on the computer software system for the shuttle. In 1992 she flew her first and only space mission, as a mission specialist. She resigned from NASA in 1993, she felt differently on how technology is presented. Science is more social and organic to Mae Jamison, then the it is shown or taught, this probably comes from her background in African studies!
She has been on Star Trek and African Americans Lives {PBS}. She has found a company and has received many honors and awards.
Mae Jamison, we honor and thank you!
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