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Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation
Renowned as an American icon and the first woman of color to travel to space, Dr. MAE JEMISON has dedicated her career to trailblazing pursuits in STEM, social responsibility, and improving human life on this planet and beyond. Dr. Jemison offers unparalleled lessons in leadership, teamwork, and motivation that resonate with any audience.
Exploring the Frontiers of Science and Human Potential
Dedicating her life’s work to scientific, technological, and medical advancements, Dr. MAE JEMISON explores the frontiers of science and the human potential.
STEM: The Importance of Science, Technology, Engineering & Math
Dr. MAE JEMISON discusses the importance of STEM in developing the next generation of problem solvers and entrepreneurs. This is an important topic for college and universities, as well as municipal regions working in partnership with businesses to attract and develop STEM talent.
Author Talks with Dr. Mae Jemison: ‘Find Where the Wind Goes’ and ‘100 Year Starship Canopus Award Anthology’
Groups can elevate their memorable event with Dr. MAE JEMISON by including a conversation about her books - Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life and 100 Year Starship Canopus Award Anthology. A bulk book buy can ensure the audience has copy of one of Dr. Jemison’s books for a memorable experience.
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History-maker Dr. Mae Jemison consistently receives rave reviews for her keynotes on leadership, teamwork, STEM, and motivation
American icon and history-maker Dr. MAE JEMISON offers bold inspiration and game-changing lessons on leadership, social responsibility, and diversity and inclusion for enraptured audiences. The first woman of color to travel into space, Dr. Jemison is pioneering and transforming breakthrough science and technology to enhance the quality of life on Earth. She is now at the helm of the 100 Year Starship (100YSS), a bold, far reaching nonprofit initiative to assure the capabilities exist for human travel beyond our solar system to another star within the next 100 years. She is also the Founder and President of both The Jemison Group, Inc. (JG) & BioSentient Corporation - leading scientific, technological, and medical innovation.
Dr. Jemison has been sought after everywhere for her motivational keynotes on leadership, teamwork, STEM, and more. Rowan University shared, ”The event was flawless. Dr. Jemison was great! Our guests, students, faculty and staff LOVED HER! We sold out all of the tickets” and the Girl Scouts of the USA raved, “Dr. Jemison was amazing! I have received nothing but positive feedback on her presentation. In fact, many have said she was the best speaker they had ever heard.”
Dr. Mae Jemison, first woman of color in space, releases a second edition of her young adult autobiography 'Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments From My Life'
DR. MAE JEMISON is already in the history books: NASA astronaut, first woman of color in space, physician in developing countries, engineer, educator, with schools named in her honor and was even the first real astronaut to appear on Star Trek. Now the second edition of Dr. Jemison’s book, Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments From My Life, is set to energize a new generation. Find Where the Wind Goes shares candid, humorous and heartfelt stories of life events from her childhood to becoming who she intended to be – space explorer, scientist, dancer and positive force. Expanding on her childhood and her time at NASA, she offers new musings on the present, from civil unrest to what she’s learned from cats. With camaraderie and respect for the intellect of the young reader, Dr. Jemison writes of going from a fear of heights as a child to dancing in orbit on the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
“There are so many parallels between when I was growing up and the world teenagers find themselves in today– human rights, social justice, an explosion of science and technology, space exploration, growing awareness and connections across the globe, evolving music and art, and individuals asserting their rights to participate,” said Dr. Jemison. “My story is about finding who you intend to be and trying to assert who you are as a teen as the world is changing around you. I hope my story provides some clues to making it through while keeping your smile, integrity and hopefulness.”
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Dr. Mae Jemison is in-demand for Black History Month
A larger-than-life force of inspiration, Dr. MAE JEMISON is in-demand for Black History Month and MLK Day events. Encouraging audience members that, "If you want a seat at the table, you can have one," Dr. Jemison brings her trailblazing story to life for rapt audiences. Featured in a children’s book entitled Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History, Dr. Jemison is a true icon, heralded for her passion and continued dedication to building a world of opportunity and equality.
Dr. Jemison consistently receives rave reviews thanks to her incredible interactions with every audience, such as: "The program went extremely well. The students loved having the opportunity to have dinner with Dr. Jemison and they had a great conversation. Dr. Jemison was extremely genuine and generous in her interactions with students, staff, and community members, many of whom reported being energized by her presence. Her presentation and subsequent Q&A was inspirational and insightful and was a very appropriate tribute to Dr. King." (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Entrepreneur, engineer, physician, educator, humanitarian, and former NASA astronaut, Dr. Mae Jemison is at the forefront of integrating the physical and social sciences with art and culture to spark innovation and build meaningful solutions to the world’s critical problems. Jemison leads 100 Year Starship® (100YSS), a nonprofit global initiative to assure that capabilities for human travel beyond our solar system to another star exist within the next 100 years while transforming life on Earth. Co-founder and principal partner of Signal Hill Road Publishing, LLC, Jemison seeks to bring to the public “Stories to elevate and ideas that dare.”
Jemison, a Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study and Visiting Scholar at EnMed engineering medical school of Texas A&M, researches pathways to transform scientific insight into operational therapy and optimizing biomedical instrumentation in clinical settings. Jemison’s work to improve science literacy and achieve diversity and inclusion in STEM disciplines is recognized worldwide. Dr. Jemison is on the Board of Directors of major public companies and organizations.
Dr. Jemison, the first woman of color in the world to go into space, served six years as a NASA astronaut and flew as the Science Mission Specialist aboard the joint mission NASA – Japanese space agency space shuttle Spacelab J. Trained as an engineer, social scientist and dancer, Jemison, a medical doctor, prior to NASA was the Area Peace Corps Medical Officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia and general practitioner in Los Angeles.
100YSS celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2023 with the international conference “Nexus Nairobi”™ – When SPACE, PURPOSE & CULTURE Collide™—in Kenya, the cradle of humans. Started thru a competitive seed-funding grant from DARPA, 100YSS pushes radical leaps in knowledge, technology, and human systems needed for deep space exploration and the requirements for a successful human future on our home planet, Earth.
Dr. Jemison founded and developed multiple technology organizations and initiatives including The Jemison Group, Inc. a technology consulting firm that purposefully considers and integrates critical socio-cultural issues to start the design of engineering and science projects. As an environmental studies professor at Dartmouth College, Dr. Jemison focused on designing sustainability into technologies for both the industrialized and developing worlds. LOOK UP One Sky, led by Jemison, developed the “Skyfie” ™ App that connects people, on a single day worldwide, to weave a global tapestry of what we individually see, feel, think, love, fear, offer, need, and hope as we look up at the sky.
Since 1994 when Dr. Jemison founded the international science camp The Earth We Share™ (TEWS), the program has designed and implemented STEM education experiences impacting thousands of students and hundreds of teachers worldwide. In addition to TEWS, the non-profit Dorothy Jemison Foundation Jemison for Excellence (DJF), founded and named after her mother – a teacher in Chicago Public Schools for more 25 years, have created and implemented a wide range of programs.
Dr. Jemison is a member of the National Academy of Medicine Council, the Chair of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) External Council, the board of directors of Kimberly-Clark (Chair, Sustainability Committee) and the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. Dr. Jemison was the starting Chair of the Texas State Product Development and Small Business Incubator Boards among other national, state and city projects for business incubators and small business investment, infrastructure, disaster response and development of advanced industries and multiple Fortune 500 company boards.
The 2023 Prix Galien Roy Vandelos Pro Bono Humanum Award for Global Health Equity, the African Union Ambassador’s inaugural Mickey Leland Award for global leadership, Forbes 50 over 50 Women List 2023, the 2022 West Point Sylvanus Thayer Award, The Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, the National Organization for Women’s Intrepid Award, Poling Chair at the University of Indiana Kelley School of Business and the Kilby Science Award; an inductee in the National Women’s Hall of Fame, the National Medical Association Hall of Fame, Texas Science Hall of Fame, International Space Hall of Fame; received Honorary Ph.Ds. from, University of Dublin, KU Leuven University (Belgium), University of Delaware, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Washington University (St. Louis), Lincoln College, Princeton and 2018 Stanford University School of Engineering Hero, among the numerous awards recognition and honorary degrees she has received.
Dr. Jemison, a much sought after speaker gave the Opening Session Keynote at the UN COP24, (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) in Katowice, Poland; spoke at the White House Reception on the occasion of the United States rejoining UNESCO hosted by First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden (2023), keynoted for 50th Anniversary of Stanford Chemical Engineering Department and 150th anniversary of Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering and was special guest at Shanghai 2010 World Expo among many requests.
Dr. Jemison authored “Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life” for teenagers, the Scholastic True Books’ 100 Year Starship series on space exploration as well as co-editor of The Canopus Award Anthology (2015 & 2017) and 100 Year Starship Symposia Proceedings. The first real astronaut to appear in the Star Trek TV series, she a LEGO mini- figurine in the Women of NASA kit, Astronaut Mae in Sesame Street and voice and inspiration of the “Skipster” device in Marvel’s “Moon Girl and the Devil Dinosaur”. She is a series hosts of National Geographic’s “One Strange Rock” and was the space operations advisor for its global miniseries docudrama, “Mars.”
Dr. Jemison graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in African and Afro-American Studies. She received her medical doctorate from Cornell University Medical College.
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