Madison Newbell: A Rising Aerospace Engineering Star

glamour.com:

. Unfortunately Newbell has had her fair share of gender discrimination as an undergraduate. She tells Glamour, “It’ll be somebody who I’ve gone to school with for years and they need help preparing for a test, and I’ll ask to help, but they don’t believe me because they see their guy friend coming over.

And in the end, I could have helped you.”Says Madison Newbell, “Being a double minority in my field means I often have to work harder to prove my worth and secure my place at the table.”Glamour: What was your childhood dream job?

Did you always want to go into the STEM field?Madison Newbell: No, I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a chef. I wanted to be a dietitian.

I wanted to be a surgeon. But I can definitely say anything that involved me being in a position to make things better. And anything with math and science.What’s the most exciting internship you’ve had in the STEM field?Out of my three, I went to Mojave, California, for Masten Space Systems.