Brooke Owens Fellowship. The Brooke Owens Fellowship is a non-profit program in the United States that provides paid internships and executive mentorship for undergraduate women seeking a career in aviation or space exploration. The fellowship was created to honor the memory of Brooke Owens, a pilot and space policy expert who died of cancer at the age of 35.

Motivation and overview 
The program looks to improve diversity within the aerospace industry. The program offers students paid summer internships at companies (including SpaceX, Avascent, Commercial Spaceflight Federation, Orbital ATK, Virgin Orbit, and Blue Origin), travel stipends and assigned mentors. It was created by Lori Garver, a former NASA deputy administrator, along with aerospace executives William Pomerantz (Virgin Orbit) and Cassie Kloberdanz Lee (Vulcan Inc.).

Fellows received two experienced aerospace mentors, one at their host industry, and another in an associated sector. Mentors include Lori Garver, Diana Trujillo, Charles Bolden, Pamela Melroy, Dava Newman, Danielle Wood, Emily Calandrelli, Will Pomerantz and Cassie Lee. The fellows are connected to a Fellowship class and an alumni network. The program is run with Future Space Leaders, and emphasises creativity. The annual Brooke Owens Fellowship conference happens during the Future Space Conference in Washington, D.C. Whilst the program is open to international students, some institutions can only host US citizens or green card holders.

The program's success has resulted in the creation of several spin-off fellowships, including the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship, Zed Factor Fellowship, and Zenith Canada Pathways Fellowship.

Alumni 
As of 2024, the Brooke Owens Fellowship has 343 alumnae across eight cohorts. Fellows span fields from engineering and science to policy, journalism, and entrepreneurship.

Inaugural Class of 2017  

 Jocelyn Clancy, (University of Southern California) — The Aerospace Corporation
 Katherine Carroll (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) — The Aerospace Corporation
 Makiah Eustice (Texas A&M University) — The Aerospace Corporation
 Maryam Gracias (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) — Air Line Pilots Association
 Rachael McKee (Metropolitan State University of Denver) — Air Line Pilots Association
 Shreya Udupa (Arizona State University) — Altius Space Machines
 Morgan Irons (Duke University) — Avascent
 Mady Sargent (University of Kansas) — Ball Aerospace
 Taylor Zedosky (University of South Carolina) — Ball Aerospace
 Golda Nguyen (Georgia Institute of Technology) — Blue Origin
 Amy Comeau (Purdue University) — Bryce Space and Technology
 Caroline Juang (Harvard University) — Bryce Space and Technology
 Emily Sheffield (Harding University) — Commercial Spaceflight Federation
 Chelsey Ballarte (Arizona State University) — GeekWire
 Michaela Spaulding (Iowa State University) — Generation Orbit
 Karen Rucker (Texas Tech University) — HawkEye 360
 Maggie Goertzen (University of Utah) — Made In Space
 Hayley Lewis (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) — Mojave Air and Space Port
 Jasmine Q. Smith (Tuskegee University) — Mojave Air and Space Port
 Kaitlin Engelbert (University of Colorado, Boulder) — The Museum of Flight
 Pau Pineda Bosque (Purdue University) — Orbital ATK
 Sumayya Abukhalil (University of Central Florida) — Orbital ATK
 Maddie Miller (Union College) — Planet Labs
 Becca Thoss (University of Southern California) — Planetary Resources
 Dahlia Baker (Coe College) —  Planetary Resources
 Karen Kuhlman (Oregon State University) — Scaled Composites
 Amanda Turk (University of Colorado, Boulder) — Sierra Nevada Corporation
 Justine Walker (College of Wooster) — Sierra Nevada Corporation
 Dawn Andrews (Georgia Institute of Technology) — SpaceX
 Roselin Campos (University of California, Los Angeles) —  Space Sciences Laboratory
 Christine Reilly (University of Colorado, Boulder) — Virgin Orbit
 Diana Alsindy (University of California, San Diego) — Virgin Orbit
 Ninoshka Llontop Lozano (University of Illinois at Chicago) — Virgin Orbit
 Piper Sigrest (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) — Virgin Orbit
Christine Chappelle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) —  Vulcan Aerospace
 Sasha Warren (Durham University (UK)) — XPRIZE

References

External links 
Brooke Owens Fellowship

Fellowships
Science policy
Scholarships in the United States
Space industry
Internship programs
Charities based in Washington, D.C.
Organizations established in 2017
2017 establishments in Washington, D.C.