Description
Wide Field Producer and host, Vivian Kobusingye Birchall, hosted four Aerospace engineers for a panel interview on being “Black In Space”, as one of the series for lifting up voices of Black professionals making a difference in STEM, politics, and the community. Johnny L Worthy is a member of the technical staff in the Space Systems Analysis and Test Group at Lincoln Laboratory working to develop and test models used to assess threats to U.S. space systems. Cadence Payne is a 4th year PhD student in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. She is a member of the Space Telecommunications, Astronomy, and Radiation Laboratory under Dr. Kerri Cahoy, where her research focuses on technology and mission development for CubeSats, small spacecraft, that observe the Earth. Her current projects involve CubeSats that probe Radio Frequency emission from the Earth’s northern and southern aurora, as well as missions that provide data for climate and weather monitoring via ocean observations. Marlyse Reeves is a PhD student in the EECS department at MIT. Her current research interests include robust execution, active learning and active sensing, and multi-agent autonomous observing systems. Janelle Wellons graduated with her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now works at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an instrument operations systems engineer. Her current projects consist of the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and she has previously worked on the Cassini mission.
