“But then when we start talking about the mind, building the muscle of the mind, we forget the critical role that struggle plays. “In the gym, we’re all very comfortable with the idea of struggle and progress in a physical sense: lifting weights, that kind of thing, like what LeBron James or Serena Williams have to do every day on the court,” Snowden said. Looking back on her own journey, Snowden is clear-eyed about how they get left behind. Women and girls are chronically underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields of work and study. “ I’m broadening my umbrella security in general military force posture issues,, how should the military respond to certain types of challenges.” “I spend a lot of time thinking about nuclear weapons policy issues and technology,” Snowden said. Mareena Robinson Snowden at her graduation. Prior to that, she spent 11 years in school: five as a physics major at Florida A&M University, then six years in grad school at MIT, where she wrote her dissertation on the development of radiation detectors for future nuclear arms control treaties. Just eight months into the job, and now with a 7-month-old daughter, she’s settling into the first workplace she can call home after two year-long fellowships at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and National Nuclear Security Administration.
and works as a senior engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in neighboring Maryland.
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