The live feed of Brookie news! Read articles written by our Fellows and follow the achievements of the Fellows and the program in the news or in publications. This blog is written and maintained by alumnae of the Brooke Owens Fellowship.
By Samuel Sorkin, Featuring Maryam Gracias, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Maryam Gracias is a rising senior at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, majoring in spaceflight operations with minors in flight, aviation safety and human factors. She is involved in her university’s SEDS chapter, the Embry-Riddle Future Space Explorers and Developers Society.
Read MoreBy Secure World Foundation
Providing mentoring, conference leadership, and individual copies of the Handbook for New Actors in Space for each participant, Secure World Foundation has been an active partner in launching the new Brooke Owens Fellowship Program.
Read MoreBy Samuel Sorkin, Featuring Diana Alsindy, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Diana Alsindy is a senior at the University of California-San Diego, majoring in chemical engineering with a focus on aerospace and mechanical engineering. She serves as the Propulsion Team Lead and Triteia CubeSat Operations Manager for SEDS UCSD.
Read MoreBy James Roddey, Featuring Hayley Lewis and Maryam Gracias, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellows
The Brooke Owens Fellowship program—a volunteer-led program awarding internships and senior mentorships to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration—announced two Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University women, both majoring in Commercial Space Operations, will be among 36 young leaders as recipients of the 2017 Brooke Owens fellowships.
Read MoreBy Union College, Featuring Maddie Miller, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
This summer, Miller will work for Planet, designing and building satellites that are used to image the entire Earth. The company, founded by ex-NASA engineers, is based in San Francisco, Calif.
Read MoreBy Jan McHarg, Featuring Makiah Eustice, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Makiah Eustice, a junior in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected as a Brooke Owens Fellow. The Brooke Owens Fellowship Program awards internships and senior mentorships to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration.
Read MoreBy Cheddar, Featuring Lori Garver, Co-Founder of the Brooke Owens Fellowship
Cheddar interviews Lori Garver about the new Brooke Owens Fellowship program.
Read MoreBy Hilary Brueck, featuring Dawn Andrews, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
20 year old Dawn Andrews usually makes her summer cash with babysitting gigs. But this year's going to be a little different. The aerospace engineering major is headed to SpaceX headquarters outside Los Angeles for her first summer internship.
Read MoreBy Clay Paciorek, Featuring Michaela Spaulding, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Michaela Spaulding, a junior in aerospace engineering, was selected as a Brooke Owens Fellow for 2017. “I’ve always been passionate about promoting STEM majors, especially women.” Spaulding said. “I saw this as an opportunity to promote that.”
Read MorePress Release from the Brooke Owens Fellowship
Today, the Brooke Owens Fellowship Program - a volunteer-led program awarding internships and senior mentorship to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration - announced 36 young leaders as recipients of 2017 Brooke Owens Fellowships.
Read MoreBy Alan Boyle, featuring Chelsey Ballarte, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Thirty-six women with a passion for aerospace have been selected to receive the first batch of Brooke Owens Fellowships – paid summer internships at a wide range of institutions across the country.
One of the women, Chelsey Ballarte, will be spending the summer with us at GeekWire.
Read MoreBy Eric Berger, Featuring the Brooke Owens Fellowship
Lori Garver had just boarded a plane last June when she heard that her young friend, D. Brooke Owens, had passed away. Owens, 35, had had terminal cancer for a long time, but the moment still stung Garver, the former deputy NASA administrator. She'd mentored Owens toward her dream of running an airport, and the two had become close.
Read MoreBy Alan Boyle, Featuring the Chelsey Ballarte, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow, and the 2017 Brooke Owens Fellows
Thirty-six women with a passion for aerospace have been selected to receive the first batch of Brooke Owens Fellowships – paid summer internships at a wide range of institutions across the country. One of the women, Chelsey Ballarte, will be spending the summer with us at GeekWire.
Read MoreBy The University of Utah, Featuring Maggie Goertzen, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Brooke Owens Fellowship Program Helps Address Historical Underrepresentation of Women in Aviation and Space Exploration by Identifying and Training World-Class Talent
Read MoreBy University of Colorado Boulder, Featuring Christine Reilly, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Some high school students seem to have their entire lives already mapped out. Christine Reilly was not one of them -- picking a college major was not easy. Now, as a CU Boulder Smead Aerospace junior and Norlin Scholar, she cannot imagine herself anywhere else.
Read MoreBy Purdue University, Featuring Amy Comeau and Pau Pineda Bosque, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellows
Two AAE undergrads will receive paid summer internships under the Brooke Owens Fellowship Program. Amy Comeau and Ana Paula Pineda Bosque were 2 of approximately 30 women selected from across the country. Both students were recommended for the program by AAE Visiting Assistant Professor Sarag Saikia.
Read MoreBy Debra Werner, Featuring the Brooke Owens Fellowship
Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Scaled Composite are a few of the companies inviting female college undergraduates planning to pursue aviation or space careers to apply for the new Brooke Owens Fellowship, which offers students paid summer internships plus travel stipends and assigned mentors.
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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