Dynamic Teamwork

Everyone is invited all the time.

Our team is built on character, rooted in deliberation, and energized through action. Respect, curiosity, and inclusivity drive our culture and the space futures we seek to create.

We strive to embrace diversity in all its forms, including race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, age, ability, veteran status, and neurotype. We believe achieving greater diversity in our faculty, staff and partners will advance our mission to create positive space futures.

Michael Crow
ASU President Co-chair, ASU Interplanetary Initiative

Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Vice President and Co-chair, ASU Interplanetary Initiative Principal Investigator, NASA Psyche mission Co-founder, Beagle Learning

Jessica Rousset
Deputy Director, ASU Interplanetary Initiative

Katherine McConachie
Sr. Director, ASU Interplanetary Initiative

Ashley Lepham
Lab student

Benjamin Weber
Lab student

Cassandra Threadgill
Sr. Academic Success Advising Coordinator

Chandler Hutchens
Lab student

Chase Kassel
Portfolio Manager

Chetan Nagaraja
Student Interaction Designer

Christopher McCormick
Lab student

Daniel Jacobs
Associate Director

Eric Stribling
Assistant Teaching Professor

Evgenya Shkolnik
Associate Director

Genevieve Cooper
Lab student

Joe DuBois
Special Projects Engineer

Juana Garcia
Business Operations Manager

Kennedy Gourdine
Administrative student worker

Lance Gharavi
Associate Director

Sam Cherian
Lab student

Sid Vaidy
Lab student

Sona Seely
Executive Assistant

Taryn Struck
Sr. Program Manager

Advisory board

Lisa B. Callahan
Vice President and General Manager of Commercial Civil Space, Lockheed Martin Space

Rejane Cantoni
Interactive Installation Artist

Tracy Drain
Flight Systems Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Tanja Masson-Zwaan
President, Emerita of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL)

Rob Meyerson
Aerospace Consultant

Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian-American writer

Amy Salzhauer
Founder and Managing Partner, Good Growth Capital

Jessy Kate Schingler
Founder and Chief Policy Analyst, Open Lunar Foundation

John Thurmond
Principal Advisor, Hess

Scott Webster
Co-founder, Executive and Director, Orbital Sciences Corp.

Affiliated faculty

Greg Autry
Thunderbird School of Global Management

Diana Ayton-Shenker
School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Jim Bell
School of Earth and Space Exploration

Jeffrey Cohen
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Cady Coleman
School of Earth and Space Exploration

Kevin Corley
W.P. Carey School of Business

Lenore Dai
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Edward Finn
Center for Science and the Imagination

Robert LiKamWa
School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Phil Mauskopf
School of Earth and Space Exploration

Andrew Maynard
School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Joe O’Rourke
School of Earth and Space Exploration

Jake Pinholster
Herberger Institute

Meenaskshi Wadhwa
School Of Earth and Space Exploration

Celebrating our team members’ achievements

Assistant Teaching Professor Eric Stribling got his PhD in innovation in global development from the ASU College of Global Futures.

Associate Director Evgenya Shkolnik was promoted to full professor at ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration.

Portfolio Manager Chase Kassel graduated with a Master of Global Management in space leadership, business and policy from ASU’s Thunderbird School of Global Management. He welcomed a baby boy!

Special Projects Engineer Joe DuBois enrolled in ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration to get his PhD in systems engineering.

Katherine McConachie was promoted to senior director of learning and also welcomed a baby boy!

Taryn Struck was promoted to senior program manager.