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Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe Material:Hardcover xenophobiaA stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth As a kid, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. A year into an astrophysics PhD program, plagued by self doubt and discouraged by a white male professor who suggested that