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The Brooke Owens Fellowship recognizes that concrete action is necessary following statements of support. Hence, we as fellows, alums, and leaders, are working within our own program to commit to ensuring diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: The Brooke Owens Fellowship – the award-winning, non-profit program that provides paid internships and executive mentorship to exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities in aerospace – announces today that it has appointed three new leaders to its executive team.
Read MoreBy Tim Fernholz, Featuring Mykaela Dunn, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
Mykaela Dunn and other Black engineers reflect on the return of human spaceflight to the US amidst protests against racism.
Read MoreBy Katherine Melbourne, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
Among all the astronomers and physicists I admired, Nancy Grace Roman has consistently been an inspiration as I pursue my goals in both astronomy and the aerospace industry.
Read MoreBy Amy Huynh, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
When I was having a rough time in school, these stories gave me the inspiration and motivation to keep going. On a surface level, I knew why that was the case: these womxn looked like me. However, on a deeper level, I couldn’t quite pinpoint why that mattered to me so much.
Read MoreBy SWE Blog, Featuring Caroline Juang and Julia Di, 2017 and 2018 Brooke Owens Fellows
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, SWE highlighted Asian American women engineers in a series of blog posts.
Read MoreBy Polly Basore Wenzl, Featuring Khristian Jones, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
“As an eighth grader, I knew that I was talented in math and science, had a love for space and wanted to be a part of the space community,” Jones said. “I just had to figure out a way to put those things together.”
Read MoreBy Hannah Munguia Flores, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
A reflection after the 2019 Brooke Owens Summit in Washington DC.
Read MoreBy Sue Kaur, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
In the last 5 years, I’ve been fortunate to meet confident and powerful women in leadership roles within their organizations. These women, who are articulate and graceful in the face of adversity, have shown me how to not only exist, but thrive upon my own terms. They showed me the value of STEM sisterhood and diplomacy when responding to “delicate situations.” These are the lessons I learned in my journey, and the wisdom imparted onto me by the phenomenal women who have taken me under their wing.
Read MoreBy Michelle Lin, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
SWE member and pageant contestant Michelle Lin urges all engineers and future engineers to remember: "You are not just your major, and you deserve to pursue all your passions in equal capacity.”
Read MoreBy Michelle Lin, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
There are some people that come into your lives, and in that instant, you know you are changed forever. Now imagine 38.
Read MoreBy Ginger Gadsden and Emilee Speck, Featuring Diana Alsindy, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Today, women and minorities play prominent roles in major space operations at NASA and in private and public space companies.
Read MoreBy Kaitlin C. Rasmussen, Erin Maier, Beck E. Strauss, Meredith Durbin, Luc Riesbeck (2018 Brooke Owens Fellow), Aislynn Wallach, Vic Zamloot, Allison Erena
Read MoreBy the Ohio State University, Featuring Anna Voelker, 2018 Brooke Owens Fellow
Anna Voelker, the Astronomy Accessibility Program Coordinator at The Ohio State University, shares her experience with bringing accessibility to science and the SciAccess Conference at OSU.
Read MoreBy Tien Nguyen, featuring Mykaela Dunn and Josefina Salazar Morales, 2019 and 2018 Brooke Owens Fellows
For the second year in a row, a UT aerospace engineering student has won the Brooke Owens Fellowship, a highly competitive program that selects 36 women in engineering across the nation and matches them with paid internships at aerospace companies and organizations.
Read MoreBy Caroline Juang, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
On Sunday, December 3, 2017, the 2017 Brookies took to their computers to answer questions about the Brooke Owens Fellowship on the community website Reddit. The session with the Brookies lasted an hour, garnering some great responses that are recorded below ranging from their experiences as women in the aerospace industry to advice for the application process.
Read MoreBy Tenoch Aztecatl and Gracie Mock, Featuring Makiah Eustice, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Aerospace engineering senior Makiah Eustice said seeing Hidden Figures was important for her because she comes from a biracial family and people of color weren’t often showed in movies in this field she is currently studying.
Read MoreBy Diana Trujillo, Brooke Owens Fellowship Mentor
Exploring space is extraordinarily difficult. Like the other challenges of our time, if we want to solve it, we need to harness the intelligence and creativity of all of our best and brightest people, not just those of one race or gender.
Read MoreBy Tim Ferholz
While some women have beaten the odds and landed high-ranking positions in the sector—Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, and Garver herself, for example—the demographic makeup of the field “has been a challenge for so many of us, and while it has changed, it hasn’t changed enough,” Garver says.
To that end, Garver and a group of space industry veterans have founded a fellowship in memory of Brooke Owens, a pilot and space policy expert who died this year of cancer at the age of 36. The fellowship will provide undergraduate women interested in aerospace with substantive summer jobs and professional mentors who can help guide their careers.
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