I’m happy to announce I’m a Founding Partner for the Zed Factor Fellowship, a program dedicated to engaging aspiring aerospace professionals from underrepresented backgrounds through practical hands-on experience, leadership training, and community outreach.
The goal of the ZFF is to empower students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the aerospace sector by placing them at an aerospace company for a 10+ week internship program and encouraging them to bring others from their community on their aerospace journey through a funded community service project they design post-internship. We see this as one element of a broader effort both within ZFF and with additional projects, the fellowship's co-founders are working on to encourage participation in the aerospace community-- we intend to additionally host virtual programming open to all students worldwide.