Your passport – an open door to opportunity, or a lifetime lockout? | Maya Nasr | TEDxMIT

Witness the never-ending struggle of Maya Nasr, a PhD candidate at MIT who is working on the NASA Mars Perseverance Mission, to overcome the limitations imposed by her passport that prevent Maya from fully contributing her learning and passion to human’s exploration of space.
Maya Nasr is a PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering department at MIT, working with Professor Jeffrey Hoffman on the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) for NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. A native of Lebanon, she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering from MIT in 2018 and 2021 respectively. Currently, she is also working on an ISS payload with the MIT Space Exploration Initiative (SEI). She has previously worked on several projects including NASA’s Cassini mission activity on Titan, NASA’s New Frontiers Saturn Probe mission, the OneWeb satellites network, the MIT KitCube Satellite, Zero Robotics ISS programming competition and the AquaMAV at Imperial College London.

As part of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) Space Law & Policy Project Group, she is currently the Policy Lead and the Congressional Legislation Lead for the SGAC Taskforce on US Space Legislation. She’s additionally the lead of the Space Resources and Space Ethics & Human Rights subgroups with the goal of space disarmament and peaceful use of outer space. She is also part of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Space4Women program. Moreover, she is interested in entrepreneurship and startups and has worked on organizing the MIT Global Startup Workshop conference in Colombia and the MIT Global Startup Labs (GSL) program in Peru. Her primary research interests are space systems engineering, international space law, policy and politics, and space security and disarmament. Outside of MIT, she loves traveling around the world, painting, and writing Arabic poetry. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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