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Now Hiring: Fellowship Administrator [CLOSED]

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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Brookies Bring Creativity to Microgravity with the Inaugural Aurelia Institute Zero-G Flight

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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47 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS EARN THEIR PLACE AT LEADING AEROSPACE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE BROOKE OWENS FELLOWSHIP CLASS OF 2023

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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Now Hiring: Our First Operations Director [CLOSED]

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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BROOKE OWENS FELLOWSHIP EVOLVES EXECUTIVE TEAM

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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A Brookie Guide to Selecting Host Institutions

For our Class of 2021, we are thrilled to have 35 of the coolest, most inspiring, and most exciting aerospace institutions in the world signed up to employ a Brookie or two. On the Brooke Owens Fellowship application, we ask you to list out three of our thirty-five host institutions that are particularly appealing to you. For students who are new to the aerospace industry, and particularly for those who may not have family or school connections who work in the industry, it can be quite difficult to make those choices. Well, read on, new friend: we’ve got tips for you!

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A Brookie Guide to Creating Your Essays

How can we make sure that one person stands out and is quickly and clearly seen and remembered among all of the hundreds or even thousands of other applications? For us, the three original works each applicant creates are the answer. Follow this guide to find out how you can create your essays that showcase your best self for the Brooke Owens Fellowship application.

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