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Podcast: Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation
Episode: Young Aviatrix Books: Shaesta Waiz and Nancy Roe Pimm
Description: Send a textWhile FLY, GIRL, FLY is a beautiful picture book for young readers, this interview is for everyone. Shaesta Waiz, an Afghan refugee, became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world at thirty years old. That mission, with 32 outreach events around the world, was focused on inspiring young people in aviation and STEM and to show them that if you dream it, you can do it. In the interview we talk about Shaesta's childhood, growing up in two worlds as an Afghan refugee in the United States, her solo trip, nineteen year old...