Junellie Gonzalez Quiles, A representative for the unrecognized.

STEM has had an unfortunate history with censorship and silencing. Science used to be a gatekept field as men dominated field despite women having equal or sometimes larger capabilities than men. This inequality was unacceptable in a field where curiosity and drive should be the only factor dictating who has the will to be scientist. This problem persisted for years until the women's suffrage movements in 1848 with the Seneca falls convention and culminating in the 19th amendment allowing women the right to vote. These rights continued to grow allowing women more and more potential to ascend to the educational level they deserved. While this solution solved a majority of the problems, there was still another major factor.
Race was another factor the caused astronomers to be silenced. with the major movement occuring between 1950 and 1960, and culminating in the civil rights act of 1964. This is when astronomers could finally study and learn as human beings. These unnecessary differences resulted in a divide in the sciences that didn't need to exsist. Junellie Gonzalez Quiles is a modern astronomer who saw this and aimed to fix it.

Junellie Gonzalez Quiles is a PHD student who is currently studying at Johns Hopkins university in Maryland, With and undergrad in Astronomy from University of Maryland. She participated in 6 unique undergraduate internships in multiple locations including NASA's Goddard space center. She currently is undergoing research about exoplanets from a geological and planetary perspective. She is a writer for an astrophysics journal titled "Astrobites", which is a daily journal written by graduate students. Junellie also is the main coordinator for a peer mentoring community titles LUMA.
the League of Underrepresented Minoritized Astronomers (LUMA), was created in 2015 by Prof. Catherine Espaillat with goal of creating a safe and supportive community for astronomers who were overlooked or underrepresented. This community is the perfect place to mend the problems of the young era science has created for itself. LUMA focus's study in Astronomy, Physics and Planetary sciences. This group not only creates community for those who have been shut down by outdated and ridiculous norms, but gives them a platform to speak through their data and exist as a scientists unhindered