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.

Marshall Center's Victoria Garcia: 'Disability Does Not Determine How I Live'

Victoria Garcia. Image Credit: NASA/MSFC/Doug Stoffer

Victoria Garcia's parents knew something was wrong when she didn't respond to loud noises. Hearing tests confirmed their then-18-month-old was profoundly deaf. Today, the 25-year-old aerospace engineer at the Marshall Center says she never let her impairment stop her from achieving anything she wanted – including working toward helping to put a new era of rockets into space.

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Marshall Center's Carballosa, Matienzo, Roman Encourage Hispanic Community to Focus on Education

Three Marshall Center employees -- Digna Carballosa, Jose Matienzo and Jose Roman -- hope to spread an important message to minority youth during the center's annual Hispanic Heritage Month observance: Focus on education. Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 -- the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries -- to Oct. 15.

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> Matienzo News Release
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