THE GREAT WOMEN PORTRAIT PROJECT
Revealing the female face of innovation
Educating this generation.
Inspiring the next.
Below: More than 30 energy industry leaders now honour Canada's first female nuclear physicist, Harriet Brooks in offices from coast to coast.
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CEOS collaborate to honour Canadian pioneer and celebrate great girls & women in STEM
On the International Day of the Girl, female CEOs in Canada's nuclear energy industry - Rumina Velshi, shown here, then President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Rachna Clavero, CEO, CANDU Owners Group, Lisa McBride, President, Women in Nuclear Canada, and Laurie Swami, President and CEO, Nuclear Waste Management - celebrated girls and women in STEM by collaborating to commission a portrait and portrait prints of STEM pioneeer and Canada's first female nuclear physicist, Harriet Brooks. Brook's original oil portrait now hangs at CNSC headquarters, and portrait prints hang in professional spaces across the country.
