I fell into space by happy accident. I was working as a producer for Al Jazeera English when I met my husband. We moved to New Mexico for his work at White Sands Missile Range and I knew nothing about the area or its rich space history before moving here. I was freelancing in radio when I was asked to cover a story about Virgin Galactic in the region, and during my interview preparations I came across all the milestones that have happened in space in New Mexico- answering my question about why there was a spaceport in the region and why Virgin Galactic had selected it for operations. I was hooked on telling the story and joined the Las Cruces Space Festival, led by Virgin Galactic and NASA's White Sands Test Facility, in its inaugural year to celebrate the history of space in New Mexico (dating back to Robert Goddard in the 1930s), share updates on what was going on in the present (from the TDRS ground station, to NASA's White Sands Test Facility, to Spaceport America), and talk about the opportunities for the future. I pivoted from broadcasting to public relations and worked at a space start up as a Communications Manager and later joined Spaceport America as a Public Information Officer before I was drawn back into broadcasting to start the T-Minus Space Daily Podcast.

My job is essentially to keep ahead with all the daily space news so you don't have to. I produce the T-Minus Space Daily Podcast. Every morning I scan through all the space stories I can find and select the top five from around the world for our rundown. After meeting with the team to decide if we have everything we want covered, I then write the podcast script for our host to record. I then decide who we think would be good guests on the show, I set up the interviews, and edit them once they are recorded, finally deciding when they will go to air. I also work with our partners and customers such as AWS for Aerospace and Satellite to produce programing to meet their needs.

Every industry has a story, and as a former broadcast journalist, I use my skills in forming narrative to share information about what is happening in the space industry. Our parent company, N2K, stands for news to knowledge, and it is my job to take complex space stories and share them in an easy to digest way so that people within the industry, and those that are space curious, can learn more about what's happening in space. Join us for T-Minus Space Daily for more.