Rachel Swaby discusses "Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Biography: Rachel Swaby is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in various publications including Runner’s World, Wired, Men’s Health, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Outside, Food and Wine, Gizmodo, Tested.com, Pacific Standard, Afar and O: The Oprah Magazine. She has worked as a research editor at Wired and a presenter at Pop-Up magazine and is currently a senior editor at Longshot magazine and the editor-in-chief of The Connective. Her first book is “Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World."

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