Innovations

Astigarraga was offered a internship with IBM Systems Group. Her internship work at IBM gave her perspective in STEM and sparked her software engineering journey. Astigarraga is an Architect/Developer currently working in IBM Watson Research. She has designed and built one of the first Enterprise Blockchain Solution Implementations. Astigarraga is also an IBM Master Inventor with over 84 patents filed. She is passionate about mentoring youth for STEM K-12 outreach.

co-founder of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's television Workshop or CTW); crated Sesame Street, Electric Company, 3-2-1 contact, Square One TV, Ghostwriter, CRO, Big Bag, Dragon Tales, Sagwa the Chinese Cat, Pinky Dinky Doo; has 205 Emmy awards, 10 Grammy Award, 5 George foster Peabody Awards including an Institutional Peabody

recorded the burgeoning suffragette movement in the early 1900s; appointed official photographer to the Household Division from 1904 to 1939 and had a darkroom in the Chelsea Barracks; her photographs encouraged military recruitment; 1908 was permitted to work in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and to photograph the king and queen; was unusual because she worked on the street rather than in the studio;

Co-creator of Barabasi-Albert algorithm with Albert Laszlo Barabasi