As a South Korean international student and a queer person, Judy is passionate about providing support to underrepresented minorities in Aerospace. 

They serve as the chair of the International Women of Aeronautics & Astronautics (WoAA), which is a committee of AIAA the largest professional aerospace organisation in the world.  Judy (She/They) is an aerospace engineering Master's student at Virginia Tech researching plasma-material interaction. 

Prior to their graduate studies, they were a System Performance Engineer at Cummins and an astrodynamics intern at Morpheus Space. They graduated from Purdue University with Bachelor’s degrees in both aeronautical and astronautical engineering and mathematics. Judy was a 2021 AIAA Diversity Scholar and a 2022 Zed Factor Fellow.  

Outside of Aerospace, Judy accepts art commissions as a freelance artist and enjoys weightlifting.

Sophie is 21 years old and has been working in the hospitality industry since age 14. She started at McDonalds and made her way to some of the top restaurants in the world including 3 Michelin star restaurant 'Restaurante Azurmendi' in Spain, 3 Michelin star restaurant 'The Fat Duck' in the UK and 2 Michelin Star restaurant 'Gaggan Anand Restaurant' in Thailand. I talk to Sophie about wellness in Michelin starred kitchens and what we can do to communicate more compassionately in our workplaces.

Lorena is a founder, community leader, Keynote Speaker, Forbes Fellow and passionately supports those changing the world for the better.

As a CEO with clients located across the world, current Harvard Graduate Student focusing on Corporate Sustainability, and former participant in Microsoft for Startup Accelerator partner programs, she shares her POV, opinion and lessons learned on social media when it comes to Corporate Sustainability in science, tech, healthcare and finance. She’s currently obsessed with Sustainable Finance & the role it will play in our collective sustainable development journey.

Lorena is your typical multi-passionate optimistic friend & Boardroom Activist who believes in holding companies accountable while addressing Corporate Sustainability problems at their root. You can find her bouldering at a gym or exploring the beautiful PNW when she’s not in digital boardrooms supporting Science & Tech executives implement & drive organizational change management to aid in their company’s transition to a socially responsible organization.

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Sophia joined Blue Origin on April 1st, 2019 as a BE-4 engine Test Operations Engineer in Van Horn, TX before transitioning to BE-4 Propulsion Test Manager in 2021. Recently, she moved to Seattle and joined the BE-3U engine team as a Customer Engineer supporting engine coordination efforts with launch vehicles.

In 2018 Sophia graduated from Johns Hopkins University with dual degrees in Physics and Applied Mathematics.  She received the 2018 Brooke Owens Fellowship with summer internship placement on the Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience team at Blue. She has previously interned at NASA HQ in the ISS Division, at SpaceX with Crew and Mission Management, and at the Space Telescope Science Institute performing Hubble instrumentation research.

Jeanette Quinlan is Senior Program Manager at SpaceLink Corporation, a company building a satellite relay system that provides continuous, high- capacity communications for spacecraft on orbit. In this role, she oversees all of SpaceLink’s NASA and Civil government program activity, working closely with the SpaceLink team of engineers, managers, executives, and industry partners.  She founded the Bay Area Women in Space and Aerospace, a quarterly speaker series promoting diversity and creating opportunities for women in the Aerospace industry to build their professional networks. 

Jeanette has 17 years experience in the space industry, with roles as Engineer, Director, Consultant, Startup Advisor, and Program Manager.  Prior to joining SpaceLink, Jeanette was the Director of Space Systems at Akash Systems, a startup developing a new material, GaN-on-Diamond, for Aerospace applications. Before joining Akash, she managed the U.S. operations of Starburst Aerospace Accelerator, connecting traditional aerospace prime contractors with startups. Jeanette spent the first 11 years of her career as a Thermal Engineer in the satellite industry. Over that period of time she worked at OneWeb, Space Systems Loral (now Maxar), and ITT (now L3Harris).  Jeanette has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.  

Jeanette lives in San Francisco, California with her husband, 1.5 year old son, and cat.

Dr. Magnus is a former NASA Astronaut and an Astronaut Hall of Fame recipient. Her election to the Hall of Fame came a week after she was named to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions awarded to an engineer. She is the Principal at AstroPlanetview, LLC and has served as the Deputy Director of Engineering in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the Undersecretary of Research and Engineering, and the former Executive Director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. Prior to leading AIAA, Dr. Magnus was a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps for 16 years where she flew to space thrice and most recently on the last Space Shuttle flight.

Dr. Magnus attended the Missouri University of Science and Technology, graduating in 1986 with a degree in physics and earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1990. She received a Ph.D. from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1996.

Selected to the NASA Astronaut Corps in April, 1996, Dr. Magnus flew in space on the STS-112 shuttle mission in 2002, and on the final shuttle flight, STS-135, in 2011. In addition, she flew to the International Space Station on STS-126 in November 2008, served as flight engineer and science officer on Expedition 18, and returned home on STS-119 after four and a half months on board. Following her assignment on Station, she served at NASA Headquarters in the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. Her last duty at NASA, after STS-135, was as the deputy chief of the Astronaut Office.

Dr. Magnus has received numerous awards and honors, including the NASA Space Flight Medal, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, and the 40 at 40 Award (given to former collegiate women athletes to recognize the impact of Title IX).

Karina Perez is the Director for Unmanned and Emerging Aviation Technologies at the Aerospace Industries Association. In this role, she works with AIA’s members regarding Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Urban Mobility, and Spectrum, among other areas, and works to find industry consensus on complex issues facing the aviation industry.

As a multicultural and queer woman of colour, Shireen is passionate about leading and supporting sustainable improvements of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEM. She is currently a DEI chair for Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics under AIAA the world’s largest Aerospace professional organization, and has held leadership positions at the Society of Women Engineers at Georgia Tech.

Shireen is currently working at Boeing’s subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences as a Systems Engineer on electric and autonomous aircraft programs. Shireen’s breadth of STEM experiences range from space debris mitigation and policy, to collaborations with the European Space Agency on bioastronautics and with the FAA and NASA on MBSE-enabled certification streamlining for noise and electric propulsion.

Shireen obtained her Masters in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech in the United States, and her Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Today, she continues to work towards normalising a safe and welcoming industry-wide culture that empowers minorities to reach their full potential.

Maya is a PhD candidate in the Aerospace Engineering department at MIT, working on the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) for NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. A native of Lebanon, she received her acceptance to MIT at the age of 16. Featured on the New York Times and as a TED talk speaker for her advocacy, Maya is passionate about increasing global representation and access in the space sector and bringing awareness to nationality-based discrimination in career opportunities for foreign nationals. She is the Policy Lead for the Space Generation Advisory Council Taskforce on US Space Policy and part of the Space Consortium at Harvard and MIT. Outside of MIT, she loves traveling around the world, painting, and writing Arabic poetry.

Khristian is currently an Interiors Engineer at United Airlines. She continues to advocate for a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive industry in her role as Co-Founder and Executive member of the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship, which empowers Black excellence in Aerospace. A graduate of the Aerospace Engineering program at Wichita State University, she aspires to make her mark on the Aerospace Industry by continuing to make air and space accessible to all. In her time away from work, Khristian aspires to be a role model and advocate for students of color that also have dreams of having careers in the Aerospace Industry as she believes that exposing students to STEM careers at an early age assists students to know all the career opportunities out there.