MADDIE KOTHE 
(she/her)

  • Executive Team Member: 2023-2025

  • Alumni Leadership Team Chair: Governance and Finance: 2025-2026

Maddie is a Director at SpaceX where she leads teams recovering spaceships and rockets to be reused after they launch. Previously at SpaceX she was a Dragon Integration Engineer and a Dragon Vehicle Lead where she helped design day of launch operations for astronaut missions and worked with NASA to successfully launch Dragon missions to the International Space Station. She was a Brooke Owens Fellow in 2018 after earning her Bachelors in Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Maddie is driven by the mission to help women realize their dreams and feel empowered in their careers.