"The World doesn't like independent women, why, I don't know, but I don't care."

Berenice Abbott, photographer and proto-feminist

The Smithsonian is highlighting women in STEM with the "#IfThenSheCan - the Exhibit"

This exhibit honors 120 celebrated women - printed in 3D - who have excelled in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). The idea: if she can see it...then she can be it.

Visit the If/ThenSheCan - The Exhibit virtually as well as going here to meet the women. This exhibit features the most statues of real women ever assembled together.

More importantly, the design for an American Women's History Museum has begun

Pushed by decades of effort by dauntless women, the Smithsonian will be building the American Women’s History Museum in our nation’s capital. The museum will recognize women’s accomplishments, the history they made, and the communities they represent. Read more here. Or until we have a museum, check out this book.

In my latest book, Love on the Mall, Estela's interest in anthropology evolves into the photographer's work of capturing the meaning of historical moments in time.

Dorothea Lange

Her work during the Depression photograping migrants made her one of the world's most renowned woman photographers.

"Migrant Mother"

Her iconic photo, Migrant Mother, inspired my scene of Estela meeting with a mother on the steps of the National Museum. The fictional destitute woman was there with her husband who was taking part in the 1934 Bonus March to get his WW1 pension.