Join us for the third seminar series event hosted by the Women's Health Program (WHx) at the MIT Media Lab, featuring Amanda Nguyen, bioastronautics research scientist and former Media Lab Director’s Fellow, who recently went into space on the Blue Origin’s New Shepard Mission NS-31.

Dr. Canan Dagdeviren, head of the Conformable Decoders research group and WHx Faculty Lead, will moderate the event. The WHx seminar series is supported by the WHx program and the Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS).  

Amanda Nguyen is an activist and astronaut. She is the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman in space. She trained as a bioastronautics researcher at the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences since 2021. Amanda's activism focuses on the intersection of race and gender. She ignited the Stop Asian Hate movement and passed sexual assault survivor rights in the United States and United Nations through her work at Rise. For her work she was nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize and is a 2022 TIME Woman of the Year. 

This event is open to the public in person + virtually.