Niamh Shaw is an Irish award-winning STEM communicator, scientist, engineer, writer, and performer who has made it her "life’s mission to get to space." Shaw combines her degrees in engineering, her science Ph.D., performance, and communication to create theatre, public events, workshops, and lectures to share the human story of science and space. Shaw is one of Ireland’s leading science communicators and is the 2019/2020 Honorary Ambassador for the Irish Girl Guides in recognition of the trail she has blazed for girls and women in Ireland. Her first book, Dream Big: An Irishwoman's Space Odyssey, published by Mercier Press tells the story of her 40-year quest to fulfill her childhood dream.