SHAD recently organized a panel called “Missing Numbers – Looking at How Girls and Women Can Help Solve Canada’s Innovation Crisis” at the Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC 2017) in Ottawa. SHAD Fellows of all ages shared their experiences and what policy makers can learn from that. In the first of three SHADsSpeak episodes, listen in as high school students Bethel Samson, SHAD Fellow 2017 (UBC), Emily Cross, SHAD Fellow 2016 (Dalhousie), and Amanda Adam, SHAD Fellow 2016 (UBC) share their struggles and successes as #womeninSTEM Follow us here on Soundcloud to hear all the latest SHADsSpeak episodes.