Dr. Shini Somara is a mechanical engineer, media broadcaster and presenter. She is best known for presenting TechKnow on Al Jazeera America, reporting for various shows on the BBC such as "The Health Show" and "No Kitchen Required" and for hosting an educational series of physics and engineering videos on Youtube for PBS Digital Studios named "Crash Course: Physics" and "Crash Course: Engineering" respectively.

She has also written an engineering book for younger readers called, "An Engineer Like Me".

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