PRESS RELEASE: The Brooke Owens Fellowship is announcing a change to its leadership team, thanking Caroline Juang for her incredible service and welcoming alumni Maddie Kothe.
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The Brooke Owens Fellowship is now accepting job applications for the role of Fellowship Administrator! As our only paid employee, our new Fellowship Administrator will play a major role in the continuing operations and growth of our award-winning programs, which have already helped bring nearly four hundred new women, non gender confirming, and non-binary professionals from a wide variety of disciplines and job types into the aerospace industry.
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In 2022, The Aurelia Institute offered three spots to students from the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship, and the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship to fly weightless with Zero-G - for free. Allysa Kazhe (BOF ‘21), Mya Guillaume (BOF ‘22, PGSF ‘21), and Amy Huynh (MIFP ‘20, BOF ‘19) were selected through a random drawing to fly with the Aurelia Institute on board a Zero G flight. They shared with us some thoughts on their weightless experience.
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PRESS RELEASE: The Brooke Owens Fellowship—a nationally-acclaimed nonprofit program recognizing exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities with space and aviation internships, senior mentorship, and a lifelong professional network—announces its Class of 2023 Brooke Owens Fellows.
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PRESS RELEASE: The Brooke Owens Fellowship is announcing a change to its leadership team, thanking Diana Trujillo for her extraordinary service and welcoming back Co-Founder Lori Garver.
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PRESS RELEASE: Executive Teams from the Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Smith Fellowship announced today that Ginny Randall will join their teams as Operation Director, the first full-time paid position for both programs.
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We are now accepting applications for the Operations Director who will help us run and grow the Brooke Owens Fellowship and the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship programs. We are thrilled to find a highly intelligent, highly motivated new leader, who will work closely with our executive teams both to run our current Fellowships and to help us develop and execute plans for new things.
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PRESS RELEASE: 51 undergraduate students earn their place at leading aerospace organizations in the Brooke Owens Fellowship Class of 2022—the Fellowship’s newest, most diverse class of Brooke Owens Fellows.
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“Buy One, Give One” has come to commercial human spaceflight, and we are one of the first recipients! A generous donation from Dylan Taylor, who flew to space on December 11, 2021, will allow us to hire our first full-time employee, who will help lead the Brooke Owens and Patti Grace Smith Fellowships into the future!
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By Hannah Duke (2021 Brooke Owens Fellow)
On-orbit servicing (OOS) contributes to greater satellite resiliency by enabling the ability to upgrade, refuel, repair, and inspect satellites. OOS can also help mitigate orbital debris. Each section will explore how these capabilities can benefit DoD operations in space.
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We are using a new system, Reviewr, to submit your application! For a tutorial on how to use this portal, check out this Brookie Guide to the Reviewr Application Portal.
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By Zoe Elledge, Featuring Rikhi Roy (2019 Brooke Owens Fellow)
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering graduate student Rikhi Roy and alumnus Oscar Klempay have been selected for this year’s Aviation Week Network’s 20 Twenties program. The prestigious honor is awarded to top young students and graduates in the field of aerospace and defense engineering.
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PRESS RELEASE: A $1 million dollar donation from Blue Origin’s Club for the Future will allow the Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Smith Fellowship programs to continue working to make the aerospace community more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
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PRESS RELEASE: Today the Fellowship is announcing changes to its executive leadership team. After helping develop and lead a program that has now helped nearly 200 young leaders begin their careers in aerospace, Co-Founder Cassie Lee will step back from her day-to-day responsibilities as a member of the five-person Executive Leadership team. To help continue the program’s rapid and impressive development, the Brooke Owens Fellowship has selected Emily Calandrelli as the newest member of its Executive team.
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By Anna Lynn Spitzer, Featuring Amy Huynh, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
Amy Huynh, a Samueli School senior double majoring in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering, has won one of only four 2020-21 Women in Aerospace Foundation (WIA) scholarships awarded nationally this year. The distinction recognizes promising young women who will serve as the next generation of female leaders in the aerospace industry.
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By Annamarie Nyirady, Featuring Khristian Jones, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
In this episode, we talk to Khristian about what sparked her passion for STEM, and how the Patti Grace Smith fellowship is empowering Black excellence in aerospace.
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PRESS RELEASE: 44 Undergraduate students earn their place at leading aerospace organizations, as the Fellowship turns five years old.
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