• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2026

• Purdue University, Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering Political Science, ‘28

• Mentor: TBD

• Brookie Mentor: TBD

Lucia Morton, a sophomore from Virginia Beach, VA, is pursuing a B.S. in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering and a B.A. in Political Science at Purdue. She is motivated by the potential to shape the future of space policy and tech diplomacy through her research and community engagement.

She is currently a Structural and Thermal-Fluids Engineering co-op at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and a part-time Computational Engineering intern at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Before starting undergrad, Lucia spent her “gap-year” as a High-Temperature Materials & Structures intern at the NASA Langley Research Center. On campus, she has conducted undergraduate research with groups from the Aerospace Science Lab, Electric Propulsion and Plasma Lab, and Zucrow Labs.

Additionally, she remains engaged in several policy-oriented initiatives with the Purdue Policy Research Institute and the College of Liberal Arts. Outside of academics, Lucia is a big fan of the arts and is an avid hiker.