Our Mission
Our Mission
About the Lost Women of Science Initiative
The Lost Women of Science Initiative is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to telling the forgotten or untold stories of remarkable female scientists and their groundbreaking work through history.
We bring these narratives to life for general audiences through various media platforms, including our flagship podcast, books, digital platforms, and theater. Additionally, we are committed to digitizing and archiving our research, and making primary source materials accessible to students, educators, and historians of science.
With our diverse team of young journalists, we are fostering a new generation of science communicators. Another key part of our mission is to inspire girls and young women—especially those from underrepresented communities in STEM—to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
The Story Behind Our Podcast
For every Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamarr or Katherine Johnson whose story has been told, there are dozens more whose stories remain unknown to the public at large, or even to contemporaries in their field. We’re talking about scientists who made tremendous contributions to their field but, for reasons of time and place and gender, have gone largely unrecognized. We believe it is imperative – now more than ever – to tell the stories of women who shifted our understanding of the world around us but have been lost to history.
The Lost Women of Science podcast series is an exemplar of top-notch journalism, training a lens on forgotten but heroic women of science. Each multi-episode season will focus on a different female scientist and will be told as a deeply reported, scripted, and scored audio narrative.
Lost Women of Science is paying it both ways – forward as well as back. That is, as much as it revisits history, Lost Women of Science will also inspire young women working their way through the STEM pipeline.
