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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.
Read MorePRESS 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.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: The Brooke Owens Fellowship is announcing a change to its leadership team, thanking Diana Trujillo for her extraordinary service and welcoming back Co-Founder Lori Garver.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: Executive Teams from the Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Smith Fellowship announced today that Ginny Randall will join their teams as Operation Director, the first full-time paid position for both programs.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: 51 undergraduate students earn their place at leading aerospace organizations in the Brooke Owens Fellowship Class of 2022—the Fellowship’s newest, most diverse class of Brooke Owens Fellows.
Read More“Buy One, Give One” has come to commercial human spaceflight, and we are one of the first recipients! A generous donation from Dylan Taylor, who flew to space on December 11, 2021, will allow us to hire our first full-time employee, who will help lead the Brooke Owens and Patti Grace Smith Fellowships into the future!
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: A $1 million dollar donation from Blue Origin’s Club for the Future will allow the Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Smith Fellowship programs to continue working to make the aerospace community more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
Read MorePRESS 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.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: 44 Undergraduate students earn their place at leading aerospace organizations, as the Fellowship turns five years old.
Read MoreFor 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!
Read MoreBy Cassie Lee with Brooke Owens Fellowship Alumnae Sasha Warren, Kryn Ambs, Kaitlin Engelbert, Amy Huynh, Katie Melbourne, Rowan Palmer, Luc Riesbeck, Rikhi Roy, Neha Sangana, and Victoria Woodburn
Cassie Lee, one of the founders of the Brooke Owens Fellowship, is featured on the United Nation’s Space4Women Spotlight.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreBy alumnae of the Brooke Owens Fellowship
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 MoreBy Meggie Biss, Featuring Kayla Watson, 2018 Brooke Owens Fellow and Executive Team Member
“I am excited most about the opportunity to introduce additional diversity and inclusion initiatives to create a more enriched experience for all fellows,” said Watson of her new role.
Read MoreBy Anika Hidayat, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
2019 Brookie Anika walks us through the Brooke Owens Fellowship, why it was founded, and what our Brookies get out of the fellowship. “There are plenty of blank pages waiting for your story of aerospace success. We'll be your biggest supporters.”
Read MoreBy Rebeka Morales, featuring Kaley Hassell, 2019 Fellow
This summer, aerospace engineering student Kaley Hassell participated in the Brooke Owens Fellowship Program. Now, she is encouraging other students to apply.
Read MoreBy TMRO, featuring Will Pomerantz, Brooke Owens Fellowship Co-Founder
Will Pomerantz speaks with TMRO in an interview about the small satellite market and Virgin Orbit’s place in it, rocket reusability and the Brooke Owens Fellowship.
Read MoreBy Greg Autry, Featuring Will Pomerantz and the Brooke Owens Fellowship
Being out at KSC with the Florida Tech and International Space University team behind the Endeavor got me thinking about the growing need for the sort of students that ISU produces and what an amazing impact they have had on my favorite industry.
Read MoreBy Will Pomerantz, Brooke Owens Fellowship Co-Founder
Innovators all around the world are getting creative about ways to close the gender gap and other forms of underrepresentation and discrimination. One fresh new programme that’s making waves is the Brooke Owens Fellowship. Now entering its third year, this program gives extraordinary undergraduate women an incredible start to their careers in aviation or space.
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