Press release from the Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Smith Fellowships. The Executive Team for the Brooke Owens Fellowship is led by (in alphabetical order): Caroline Juang, Diana Trujillo, Emily Calandrelli, Kayla Watson, and William Pomerantz.
JULY 14, 2021 | Today, the Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Smith Fellowship were selected to jointly receive a $1 million grant from Blue Origin’s Club for the Future. This generous donation will allow the two programs to continue working to make the aerospace community more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive, in particular by inspiring, recruiting, and training talented women, non-binary, and Black students into the workforce.
“Our recent auction for the first seat on New Shepard resulted in a donation of $28 million to our non-profit foundation, Club for the Future,” said Bob Smith, Blue Origin CEO. “This donation is enabling Club for the Future to rapidly expand its reach by partnering with 19 organizations to develop and inspire the next generation of space professionals. Our generation will build the road to space and these efforts will ensure the next generation is ready to go even further.”
Read the full press release here: https://www.brookeowensfellowship.org/blog/posts/2021-fellowships-selected-blue-origin-grant