NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

"Returning astronauts to the moon, and journeying to Mars and beyond, will require a diverse team of many individuals with the best minds, the most comprehensive expertise, the broadest knowledge and the strongest talent… NASA is fully committed to diversity as a model for helping to identify and develop the best talent, create effective teams, achieve excellence and realize mission success."

—Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator
NASA Policy Statement on Diversity

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is proud of its highly diverse, exceptionally qualified workforce. The center strives at every level to foster and maintain an inclusive, productive, equitable work environment in which every team member can realize his or her fullest potential.

The Marshall Center team is a diverse community of colleagues, partners and professionals -- sharing one another's victories and challenges, and celebrating the things that make us unique as individuals and strengthen us as a team.

Our news site spotlights six diverse groups in particular who help make up the complete Marshall workforce: African Americans, Asian-Pacific Americans, disabled persons, Hispanic/Latino Americans, Native Americans, seniors and women.

Click the links on the right to learn more about the people of Marshall.

A Summer to 'INSPIRE' Young Minds -- and Advance NASA's Goals

Seventeen-year-old NASA intern Dillon Patel and his Marshall Center mentor, engineering chief Pravin Aggarwal. Image Credit: NASA/MSFC

Eighteen high school seniors and college freshmen from Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri and Tennessee spent their summer as paid NASA interns at the Marshall Center, helping NASA pursue its next-generation exploration and science goals. The students are part of a new NASA education project called "INSPIRE" -- the Interdisciplinary National Science Project Incorporating Research and Education Experience. And they will certainly have on-the-job stories to tell at school this fall.

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Three Marshall Center employees chosen for NASA Administrator's Fellowship Program

Elaine Flowers Duncan; Kimberly Sanland Robinson; Virginia Cook Tickles Image Credit: NASA/MSFC

Elaine Flowers Duncan, Kimberly Sanland Robinson and Virginia Cook Tickles, all employees at the Marshall Center, are going back to school this year -- only this time, they will be teachers instead of students. Each has been selected for the NASA Administrator's Fellowship Program and will teach classes emphasizing the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers -- known as STEM -- at selected minority institutions.

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