"What's really been wonderful over the last 30 years, is the opportunity that's given to me to reach out to so many people. Certainly, when I was still at NASA as an astronaut, I spoke to many schools, and a lot of them were schools with high Hispanic enrollment, and I'm sure they really never seen anyone like me before. So, I was always excited to go there."
"And I've continued to do outreach ever since, speaking to a wide variety of audiences, but also doing podcasts, I've written some children's bilingual board books on science and engineering. I've just had all these different ways of being able to reach out to get kids to think about science and engineering, STEM careers, or even just setting a high goal for themselves, no matter what they are interested in. And that's been hugely rewarding."
Dr. Ellen Ochoa was born May 10, 1958, in Los Angeles and holds a B.S. in physics from San Diego State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She conducted pioneering research in optical systems, image processing, and computer vision before joining NASA. In 1993 she became the first Hispanic woman to travel to space, logging nearly 1,000 hours in orbit across four shuttle missions. She later served as the first Hispanic director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, where she championed diversity, STEM education, bilingual outreach, and innovation in human spaceflight, speaking widely to schools and creating educational resources.
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