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“UCI’s Rising Stargirls Program Dawns Again This Summer”, UCI Physical Sciences Communications, January 19, 2022
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson Season 12, Episode 22: “Cosmic Queries — Exoplanetary Exploration with Dr. Aomawa Shields”, August 31, 2021
“Claiming a Louder Life: Part II”, Inside Higher Ed, March 5, 2021
“Claiming a Louder Life: Part I”, Inside Higher Ed, February 19, 2021
“Episode 111: Star Power”, The Limit Does Not Exist Podcast, October 30, 2020
“Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM,” Tonya Bolden, March 16, 2020
"The Importance of Women in STEM Aomawa Shields Featured in Teen Vogue List of Female Advocates of STEM", Astrobiology at NASA-Life in the Universe, June 6, 2019
“An Unexpected Path to Becoming an Astronomer”, NOVA/PBS, September 5, 2018
"Astrobiology’s Rising Star", UC News, February 7, 2017
"Faculty Highlight: Aomawa Shields", Astronomy in Color, September 29, 2016
"Astronomer, actor, role model: TED Fellow Aomawa Shields looks for life on other planets", TED blog, July 10, 2015
"NSF Fellow Pairs Art, Astronomy to Hook Girls on Science", Education Week, March 18, 2015
"Rising Stargirls: Girls in Astronomy", posted on Universe Awareness, February 16, 2015
"Rising Stargirls: Girls of All Colors Learning, Discovering, and Exploring", posted on the Women in Astronomy Blog, February 4, 2015
“I am hoping that by encouraging these girls to bring who they are as people to what they study, perhaps a relationship with the universe might blossom for them too.”