Sheyene Gerardi (born April 13) is a Venezuelan former actress, producer, mining executive, co-founder NASA´s Planetary Landing Team, she serves as strategic advisor of the Next Generation Committee of the Robotics Society of Japan. In 2018, Sheyene was appointed as the Lead for Robotics Outreach at NASA’s Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS), The Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) and The Florida Space Institute (FSI) network, where she co-founded the NASA´s Planetary Landing Team, a node of the Center for Lunar & Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS) at University of Central Florida (UCF).  During her role at NASA, she founded the Sheyene Institute, a company that works on technologies to develop resources on the Moon, Mars and for free space asteroids, also known as “space resources” to support NASA missions. She operates two philanthropic organizations through the Sheyene Gerardi Foundation. The Sheyene School, to address technological literacy. The Sheyene e-health, an electronic healthcare information delivery network for rare diseases, after becoming a survivor of an unclassifiable splenic hairy small B-Cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare cancer. Sheyene is member to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and the committee on professional ethics, rights, and freedoms.  

She is working with governments introducing robotics education into low-resource communities .

Entertainment career

Entertainment 
Sheyene is known for her work in more than 30 countries, including Russia, Germany, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. Given her influence on the culture, a non-profit charity foundation in Barlovento, Venezuela — the Sheyene School — is named after her.

Gerardi has won the Emmy Award, the 2 de Oro award, She has received the key of the city in Barlovento, the Meridiano award and the Imagen Awards. The actress has also credits in roles as a TV host. In 2016, Gerardi was named a Mogul Influencer in New York City.

Later Career 
Sheyene is the founder of the Sheyene Gerardi Network (SGN), a entertainment ecosystem for social change, dedicated to foster awareness related to the space revolution.

Sheyene began hosting a TV Show documentary entitled To the Moon and Back with Sheyene Gerardi, in 2020 distributed through cable television. Sheyene is also executive producing this series.

Sheyene Gerardi, is working with NASA Kennedy Space Center and the Florida Space Institute (FSI) to teach Planetary engineering and creating  Robotics competitions for low-income children.

Her role infusing scientific progress into robotics outreach includes to develop a series of robotics competitions for universities and to develop robotics for constructing landing pads on the Moon.

She is working with governments introducing robotics education into low-resource communities or conflict areas, such as rural schools, refugee camps. The program is serving prison systems providing assistance with education to people who has been wrongfully convicted.

Sheyene`s family has owned and operated a mining company, since 1954.  Gerardi acquired her wealth after her mother and father were killed in an automobile accident, leaving Sheyene with no living relatives.

She serves as a CEO and took over the company after her parents passed away, one of her first major actions following the death of her parents was to implement automated mining. 

Sheyene’s lands are in the Orinoco Mining Arc, in the same area of the Cristinas and the Brisas mine, which, according to a business valuation, the property may be worth more than $1 billion. According to the minister of the Popular Power for Ecological Mining Development, the Orinoco Mining Arc has tons of reserves of gold, copper, diamond, coltan, iron, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, thorium and other minerals and it has a potential of about 2 trillion dollars, which would make it the second biggest gold reserve in the world.

Another one of her businesses include a robotics product line for commercial use and various projects and activities within NASA, including the International Space Station, robotic missions and international Space launch.

Sheyene Institute 
After becoming involved with NASA Sheyene founded the Sheyene Institute, a company that works on technologies to mining resources on the Moon, Mars and asteroids, to support NASA missions. 

On April 2020, Sheyene enrolled in the University of Naples Federico II to acquire a degree in Political science. Sheyene is currently working along with governments and international organizations to introduce robotics education into low-resource communities or conflict areas, such as rural schools, refugee camps, non-formal school systems and prison systems in concert with entertainment productions for social change to educate the public and guide them to take action.

Gerardi is member of the American Society of International Law and  the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Sheyene has been a featured speaker at several international business and technology forums, including the World Economic Forum, the World Government Summit and the Nobel Prize Summit.

Significant events 

In 2006, her mother and father were killed in an automobile accident, leaving Sheyene with no living relatives. A year later, she received a diagnosis of advanced lymphoma stage IV, a very rare type of cancer with only 60 cases reported worldwide with no survivors. The cancer was spread throughout 85% of her body and doctors gave her three months to live. Sheyene underwent three years of chemotherapy treatments in Florida, she suffered no hair loss. During her chemotherapy treatments, Gerardi worked in two films in Mexico.

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