1. Ada-Rhodes Short is a Canadian mechanical engineer, roboticist, and transgender rights activist.
12 Facts About Ada-Rhodes Short
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Ada-Rhodes Short is the co-host of the podcast Totally Trans: Searching for the Trans Canon alongside writer Henry Giardina.
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Ada-Rhodes Short is a co-founder of Baylor University's first LGBTQ student group.
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Ada-Rhodes Short is a co-creator of Ose, a hands-free device for blended orgasms, which won a 2019 CES Innovation Award in the robotics and drones category.
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Ada-Rhodes Short gained her Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2014.
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Ada-Rhodes Short has a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, where she modeled risk for autonomous decision making.
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Ada-Rhodes Short completed her PhD at Oregon State University under Dr Bryony DuPont, publishing a dissertation on building a computationally cognitive agent that can handle black swan events.
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In 2018, Ada-Rhodes Short delivered a speech at the Corvallis Women's March on food instability and housing insecurity in the transgender community.
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Ada-Rhodes Short was the recipient of the 2019 Soroptimists Ruby Award for Women Helping Women in recognition of her mutual aid and activism work.
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In 2021 Ada-Rhodes Short was involved in the fight against anti-trans legislation in Texas and helped start the protest group Trans Resistance of Texas.
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Ada-Rhodes Short worked at Sphero as a mechanical engineer between 2014 and 2017, and co-developed a patented multi-body self-propelled device that was used in the Star Wars BB-8 Robot toy.
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Ada-Rhodes Short is one of the contributors to the performance art project and book "Dionu: The Unnamed Faith of the Named", an esoteric subculture which her Totally Trans podcast describes as a "trans magic art-cult".