Holly Frey advocates for increasing the number of women and indigenous people in engineering and mathematics fields.

“She did a lot of work trying to open doors for women and indigenous people in the fields she had spent her whole career working in.”

Tracy Wilson highlights the importance of institutional support and advocacy in increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering.

“This organization wanted to increase college enrollment and graduation rates for indigenous students. We said earlier that Ross was the first indigenous woman known to become an engineer in the US and by the 1970s women and indigenous people were still extremely underrepresented in the sciences and ”