Excerpted from Bilha Fish’s Invincible Women: Conversations with 21 Inspiring and Successful American Immigrants, publishing May 14, 2020 by Hybrid Global Publishing.It takes ten minutes to convince Nergis Mavalvala that she would be an asset to my book.
I make my case by pointing out that she has successfully challenged many stereotypes: being a woman astrophysicist in a predominantly man’s world; an immigrant academician; a self-described “out, queer, person of color”; and to top it all, a