Naia Butler-Craig

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Naia Butler-Craig
Born
Orlando, Florida[1]
Alma materEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University
AwardsForbes 30 Under 30, 2021[2]
Scientific career
FieldsAerospace engineering
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology

Naia Butler-Craig is an American aerospace engineer and a science communicator. She is a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research fellow in the High-Power Electric Propulsion Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[3] She joined Georgia Tech to pursue her doctoral research on electric propulsion after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and working in the Space and Science Technology Systems Branch at NASA Glenn Research Center.[4][5] She is the founder of Black Girls in STEM—an initiative to promote Black girls and women to serve as role models for younger scientists—and serves as the Head of Chapters for the Society of Women in Space Exploration.[6][7]

Awards and honors[]

Butler-Craig was named “Executive Member of the Year” by the National Society of Black Engineers, Region III in 2018[4] and in 2020 she received the Modern-Day Technology Leader Award, part of the Black Engineer of the Year Awards.[8] She was featured in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Science for her contribution to advancing diversity in STEM.[2][9][10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Meet Naia Butler-Craig". VoyageATL. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  2. ^ a b "Forbes 30 under 30: Science". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Naia Butler-Craig Selected for 2020 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Grant". Georgia Institute of Technology. 2020-04-13. Retrieved 2020-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b VanguardSTEM (2018-05-02). "Naia Butler-Craig". Medium. Retrieved 2020-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Leman, Jennifer (2020-02-11). "These 10 Women Are Changing the Way We Talk About Science". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  6. ^ Nayak, Anika (2020-03-20). "These Gen Z "STEMinists" Are Here To Close The STEM Gender Gap". Elite Daily. Retrieved 2020-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Butler-Craig, Naia (2020). "For 16-year-old black girl nerds, it's good that Katherine Johnson is no longer hidden". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-12-12.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "Naia Butler-Craig to Receive a 2020 Modern-Day Technology Leader Award". Georgia Institute of Technology. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2020-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Gohd, Chelsea (2020-07-08). "Space has a diversity problem — and big institutions like universities can do something about it". Space.com. Retrieved 2020-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ Jewett, Rachel (2020-12-02). "Space Scientists Naia Butler-Craig and Hannah Kerner Make Forbes' Under 30 List". Via Satellite. Retrieved 2020-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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