Reńee Hložek is a section leader for Code in Place and a South African cosmologist and Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. She is a TED Fellow and was part of a teaching initiative at Princeton University to teach math and science to incarcerated individuals, and also formed the Hope-Princeton exchange to support South African women in the STEM fields. In this episode, hear her talk about her love for astronomy, how she overcomes challenges in STEM, and how the knowledge students gain from Code in Place can directly be applied to studying the universe. 

Podcast produced by Patricia Wei and Jacob Sharf.