My professional journey has taken me across a diverse range of fields—from aerospace engineering to humanitarian logistics, from teaching filmmaking in rural Kenya to evaluating solar water pumps in India.
I began my career as an aerospace engineer, contributing to major NASA programs and helping design support systems for long-duration space missions. Over two decades, I worked with organizations like Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, and later supported NASA directly through my consulting firm, Casitair Consulting. My work included everything from logistics planning for the International Space Station (ISS) to developing maintenance strategies for future lunar outposts.
After the ISS became permanently crewed in 2000, I decided to start focusing my career on more earthly pursuits, starting with joining the Peace Corps where I served as a small business and IT consultant in Benin, West Africa. Later, as I pursued a master’s degree in Humanitarian Logistics in Switzerland, I joined Oxfam America, where I managed emergency logistics in disaster zones such as Haiti and Sudan, and trained local teams in countries like Senegal, Ethiopia, and Peru.
Later, at MIT, I shifted my focus to sustainability and technology evaluation in low-resource settings. There, I led research on products like solar lanterns and water filters, working alongside PhD students to understand what really works in the field.
Throughout all of this, I’ve remained committed to education and community building—whether founding a nonprofit to foster international collaboration in space, or teaching multimedia and filmmaking to students in Kenya.
I’m excited to bring this multidisciplinary perspective to AI Shorts for Social Change where I hope to be both a content creator and project director.
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