Jan Millsapps, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Cinema at San Francisco State University, has amassed an impressive body of creative work and high-profile professional activities that demonstrate an ongoing commitment to finding and telling women’s stories, especially those related to science and technology, and in improving the status of women individually and globally. She has produced groundbreaking films, videos, and interactive cinema, has been a featured blogger on Huffington Post and Thrive Global, and has written two space-themed novels. Her documentary, "Madame Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond," screened at the United Nations in Vienna, the University of Cambridge, New York Academy of Sciences, and Arecibo Observatory, and was awarded first prize for a professional documentary at the Raw Science Film Festival. Millsapps has spoken about the need for diversity in the space arena at several Mars Society Conventions, at the U.N. “Space for Women” expert meeting, and at “SETI Talks.” Recently she was appointed as a “citizen diplomat” for the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase and named a “Space4Women” mentor by the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in rhetoric and discourse, an M.A. in English and Film Studies, a B.A. in Creative Arts. In 2006 she earned an academic certificate in cosmology.