{"id":141215,"date":"2022-10-18T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-483407"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:41:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T20:41:57","slug":"nasa-talks-equity-artemis-more-at-annual-black-caucus-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people-of-nasa\/diversity-at-nasa\/missionequity\/nasa-talks-equity-artemis-more-at-annual-black-caucus-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Talks Equity, Artemis, More at Annual Black Caucus Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1936\" height=\"1999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg?w=1936\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche and U.S. Congressional Representative Eddie Berniece Johnson of Texas at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 51st Annual Legislative Conference.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg 1936w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg?resize=291,300 291w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg?resize=768,793 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg?resize=992,1024 992w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg?resize=1488,1536 1488w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg?resize=387,400 387w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg?resize=581,600 581w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg?resize=872,900 872w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/wyche_johnson_2022_cbc.jpg?resize=1162,1200 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1936px) 100vw, 1936px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche and U.S. Congressional Representative Eddie Berniece Johnson of Texas at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation\u2019s 51st Annual Legislative Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. <strong>Credits: NASA\/GRC\/Jordan Salkin<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>NASA participated in the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation\u2019s 51st legislative conference in Washington Sept. 28-Oct. 2. The theme for the annual policy conference was \u201cAdvancing Our Purpose. Elevating Our Power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the agency, the conference was an opportunity to engage with members of Congress and reinforce why diversity in STEM matters. It also was an occasion to reiterate how the agency intends to create more opportunities for untapped audiences and people of color to participate in the space industry through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission-equity\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Equity initiative<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/nasa_-_equity_report_-_v10.pdf?emrc=76c3c1\">Equity Action Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s hybrid event, which focused on Black civic engagement, public policy, and STEM education, included in-person panels, vendors, and workshops as well as virtual programming. The in-person setting allowed for candid conversation with some of the nation\u2019s most influential leaders, businesses, organizations, and federal agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With an interactive, 360-degree display as its backdrop, NASA hosted a series of dialogues with agency leaders and other subject matter experts on topics ranging from its Equity Action Plan to the Artemis Generation. During these \u201cfireside chats,\u201d NASA shared how inclusivity and accessibility play an important role in expanding opportunities for individuals with various backgrounds, skillsets, and experience to work with and learn from NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe NASA Equity Action Plan is the agency\u2019s drive to include all of America in everything we do. We understand that to continue to do this amazing work \u2013 return to the Moon and on to Mars, study the universe, understand Earth, and prepare the next generation of explorers, the Artemis Generation \u2013 we will need every willing brain to join us,\u201d said NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center Director Clayton Turner.  \u201cWe need to remove barriers and create opportunities that will make it easier to build relationships and to work together.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the agency\u2019s Equity Action Plan, Turner and other speakers shared insights on what expanding opportunities could mean for the future generation of space explorers. Speakers expressed the critical need to cultivate talent in young scholars early on, through STEM education and by providing opportunities for exposure so that they will know that there is a need and desire for their unique talents, skills, and experiences in the aerospace industry \u2013 and certainly at NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo above: Dr. Antoine Moss, NASA\u2019s lead for diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility, and NASA Langley Research Center Director Clayton Turner talk at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation\u2019s 51st Annual Legislative Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Credit: NASA\/GRC\/Jordan Salkin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To watch the full conversation with Turner and other NASA leaders during the Congressional Black Caucus conference, and for more information on the NASA Equity Action plan, visit NASA\u2019s Mission Equity page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/nasa.gov\/mission-equity\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA participated in the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation\u2019s 51st legislative conference in Washington Sept. 28-Oct. 2. The theme for the annual policy conference was \u201cAdvancing Our Purpose. Elevating Our Power.\u201d For the agency, the conference was an opportunity to engage with members of Congress and reinforce why diversity in STEM matters. 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