Dr. Jennifer “Jinni” Meehan is the National Space Weather Program Manager for the Analyze, Forecast and Support Office at National Weather Service (NWS) headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. Jinni manages one of the 11 service programs of the NWS, space weather, and provides the coordinate needed within NOAA and across the federal government to ensure a Space-Weather-Ready Nation. Jinni works with NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center on issues related to global, national, regional, and local policy, products, and services to leverage resources and support forecast consistency.

Megan Wenrich joined the Space Foundation as the Manager of DC Operations in January 2021.  She came from NASA, where she served on their Congressional outreach team.  Notably, she developed NASA’s virtual events program during the 2020 COVID pandemic to ensure continuity of NASA’s presence on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Bill Nelson was sworn in as the 14th NASA administrator on May 3, 2021, tasked with carrying out the Biden-Harris administration’s vision for the agency.

General (Ret.) John Hyten served as the 11th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after a distinguished 40-year career in the United States Air Force. Before retiring from the military in November 2021, General (Ret.) Hyten’s role as Vice Chairman made him the nation’s second highest ranking military officer, responsible for supporting and…

Founder of Tierra Luna Engineering, LLC José M. Hernández is a former NASA Astronaut, was selected as part of NASA’s 19th class of astronauts in 2004 where he trained and served as the flight engineer on the 2009 14-day STS-128 mission aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Before being selected as an astronaut, Jose worked at NASA as the Branch Chief of the Materials and Processes Branch at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. There he oversaw the branch’s activities in the areas of materials and processes, fracture control, nondestructive evaluation, failure analysis, and Nano materials research. His branch was also instrumental in participating in the investigation to help find the root cause of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident and reporting those results to the President’s Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

Lynette Shaw is a Data Scientist and former Assistant Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in Sociology with a concentration in statistics from the University of Washington. Her published research has focused on the spontaneous emergence of cultural dynamics from individual cognition and the social construction of cryptocurrencies’ economic worth. She is also a founding board member of the Computational Democracy Project, a non-profit that combines machine learning with insights into socio-technical systems to facilitate large-scale, online deliberation processes across the World.

Christine Tan plays at the intersection of Systems Thinking, Wellbeing Technology, and Neuroscience to co-create a future of exponential compassion. As the co-founder of Systems Living Labs, she aspires to reimagine the current state and trajectory of our world. Guided by the principles of Systems Thinking, she strives to do so by building our collective capacity to transform the systems that underlie the flourishing of our humanity, society, and home – planet Earth.

Rachel Lyons is a key advocate in the advancement of space technology and exploration. Rachel is the former Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space – USA, a non-profit that empowers young people to make an impact in space exploration. She is a former public radio host. She holds a BSc. in Aerospace Engineering and Economics from the University of Miami.