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Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

-Advertised opportunities in the space industry, including internships, fellowships, and conferences.-Represented the interests of Georgetown University to the DC Space Grant.-Managed $800 budget for events and outreach.-Began program to engage K-12 students across DC with space topics

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

-Led and organized outreach and weekly observing nights as well as speaker events.-Part of team to secure funding from Georgetown to restore and renovate historic building.-Secured $4,500 grant to fund purchase of solar observing telescope.-Participated in allocating semesterly budget.-Participated in Panel on Planetary Protection at SETI Earth at a Crossroads Conference.-Hired and supervised contractors restoring century-old twelve-inch refractor.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

-Produced several ~hour long interviews with space policy figures including NASA Associate Administrator Dr. Bhavya Lal and Rick Davis as Director of Media.-Advocated for increased course offerings and funding as member of Georgetown Space Advisory Committee.-Led several student projects spanning from policy to engineering.-Organized and hosted speaker events by figures in the space industry.

-Participated in and helped facilitate professional wargames.-Attended game session hosted by the Institute of Defense Analyses.

-Represented over 80+ commercial space companies in meetings on the Hill, with agency partners, and in the Administration.-Informed work on spectrum licensing, FAA Part 450, landing rights and interference.-Supported lobbying efforts surrounding CJS and THUD appropriations, FAA & NASA re-auth, and the Commercial Space Bill.-Provided critical support to the appropriations process, helping to secure funding for members in an adverse budgetary environment.

Washington, Dc

-Supported weekly I-MIM (International Mars Ice-Mapper) team meetings with international partners.-Prepared and supported IMEWG (International Mars Exploration Working Group) meetings by setting agendas and notetaking.-Participated in and summarized internal NASA PSD and SMD internal strategy meetings.-Compiled report to be submitted to NAS on the state of science objectives enabled by human exploration.-Drafted blogs and social media material to be published to document the Team’s work.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

-Contributed to structured foresight exercise on private industry’s potential to contribute to the Intelligence Community.-Conducted market research on space industry, including product offerings of interest to the IC.-Identified opportunities for private-public partnership.-Presented findings to ODNI leadership.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

-Summarized important events ranging from congressional hearings to closed private industry sessions.-Translated complex technology briefs into simple one-pagers and PowerPoint presentations for internal and external use.-Interviewed key company officials to write outwards facing PR posts on company website.-Lobbied Hill offices in support of appropriations requests.-Created and presented final project forecasting the future of the space industry to leadership team and CEO in Denver.

-Content creator with 175,000+ views and extensive experience researching, analyzing, and communicating space technology, policy, and current events as well as with video and audio media editing.-Familiar with technical aspects of civilian and military space programs.-Able to absorb and communicate dense information clearly and concisely.