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2019 NAC Cohort

2018 NAC Cohort

2017 NAC Cohort

	Undergrad & Cohort	Grad School/Employment
	Jacqueline Antwi-Danso Texas Christian University '17 STScI 2016 Mentor: Lou Strolger	Texas A&M, '23 (entered 2017) PhD Astronomy Chambliss Award, 229th AAS
	Ameer Blake Howard University, 16 NASA GSFC Mentor: Kartik Sheth	Hampton University M.S. exp. 2020
	Casey Block
	Brian Brooks Old Dominion University, '14 STScI, 2014 Mentor: Lou Strolger	STScI, Instruments Division
	Tuesday Cabang South Carolina State University Michigan State University, 2020 Mentor: Artemis Spyrou
	Tierra Candelaria College of Idaho '15 Socorro, 2014, 2015	PhD, New Mexico Tech '21
	Tiffany Christian City College of New York ('17) Socorro, 2017 Mentor: Amy Kimball	Northwestern University PhD, '24
	Leonardo Clarke University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, '21 UW-Madison Mentor: Bob Benjamin & Audra Hernandez
	Peter Doze Texas Southern University, '16 Wisconsin-Madison Mentor: Bob Benjamin	Rutgers, '21 PhD Physics and Astronomy
	Allison Erena Smith College University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017, STSci, 2018 Mentor: Eric Wilcots (UW), Laura Watkins (STScI)
	Christopher Fladd Piedmont Virginia Community College '18 George Mason, '20 Engineering NRAO CV, 2018 Mentor: Morgan McLeod
	Lina Florez University of Illinois Princeton, 2017 Mentor: Michael Strauss
	Alex Fortenberry University of the Virgin Islands, '19 NRAO-CV, 2018 Mentor: Brian Kent and Anja Fourie
	Charris Gabaldon California State - Chico '17 Wisconsin-Madison, 2017 Mentor: Audra Hernandez	Grad school: TBD
	Angelina Gallego Hampton University, '18 Socorro, 2017 Mentor: Lory Wingate	NAC/NINE Fellow 2018
	Samantha Garza University of Dallas, 21 UW-Madison, 2018 Mentor: Bob Benjamin NRAO HQ, 2019 Mentor: Amanda Kepley
	Kevin Gima University of Maryland, '18 Socorro, 2015 Mentor: Betsy Mills kevingima@outlook.com	North Dakota State University, '21
	Junellie Gonzales-Quiles University of Maryland, '19 GSFC, 2015
	Cee Gould UC-Berkeley, '18 NASA GSFC, 2015 Mentor: Tony Venters
	Elizabeth Gutierrez University of Texas-Austin, '19 Socorro, 2015 Mentor: Laura Perez	Harvard Banneker, entered 2017
	Maryam Hami Whittier College, '17 Charlottesville, 2017 Mentor: Aaron Evans	Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Masters Astrophysics, '20 Entered Fall 2017
	Sarra Hayoune Hudson County CC Princeton Mentor:
	Betsy Hernandez Hunter College of the City College of New York '17 STScI, 2017 Mentor: Lou Strolger	Helen Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History, 2017-2018 Princeton post-baccalaurette program, 2018-2020
	Jacquie Hernandez Texas Christian University, '22 NRAO Socorro Mentor: Anna Kapinska
	Ryan Hubbard Howard University, '17 Wisconsin-Madison Mentor: Aleks Diamond-Stanic	University of Michigan, '22 PhD Engineering, Applied Physics
	Qiana Hunt University of Alabama-Huntsville, '16 GSFC, 2015 Mentor: John Hewitt	Princeton Post-Bac, '18 University of Michigan, PhD. Astronomy, '24
	Elizabeth Johnson Villanova University, '18 STScI 2016 Mentor: Lou Strolger Chambliss, 2017	Johns Hopkins Astronomy PhD program (entered Fall, 2018)
	Kaimi Kahihikolo University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2019 Princeton, 2018 Mentor: Josh Winn
	Bridget Kayetesi Hamilton College, '18 Charlottesville, 2015; STScI 2016 Mentors: Amanda Heiderman, Janice Lee and Dave Thilker
	Sara Kostmeyer Mississippi State University, '22 UW-Madison Mentor: Kotulla
	Tamar Lambert-Brown University of Maryland, '18 Charlottesville, 2014 Mentors: Aaron Evans, Kartik Sheth	University of Houston - Clear Lake MS-to-PhD Nuclear and Particle Physics (entered Fall, 2019)
	Sophie Lebowitz Ohio State University, 2020 NRAO-CV, 2018 Mentor: Bjorn Emonts
	Kelsey Lund UC San Diego, 17 Socorro, 2016 NAC/NINE, 2017 Mentor: Chris Hales, Lory Wingate	North Carolina State University PhD Physics (2023)
	Sinclaire Manning Howard University, '15 Charlottesville, 2013, 2014, 2015 Mentor: Kartik Sheth	University of Texas, Austin, '20 2016 NSF Grad Research Fellow 2018 NAC Fellow
	Chima McGruder University of Tennessee, Knoxville, '17 STScI 2016 Mentor: Anand Sivaramakrishnan	Harvard University, PhD Candidate, 2023 Entered 2017 NSF Graduate Fellow NAC Fellow 2018
	Myles McKay South Carolina State University, '16 Charlottesville, 2014; STScI, 2015 STScI - Hubble WFC3 Team Mentors: Lou Strolger	University of Washington, '23 entered 2018
	Moiya McTier Harvard University, '16 Charlottesville, 2014 Mentor: Kartik Sheth Chambliss, 2016	Banneker, '15 Columbia University '21 PhD Astronomy NSF Graduate Research Fellowship NAC Fellow 2018 Moiya McTier website
	Stefenie Minto University of Maryland, '16 STScI 2016 Mentor: Sivaramakrishnan
	Cecilia Molina San Francisco State University, 2019 NRAO-CV Mentor: Aaron Evans
	Deborah Mroczek Michigan State University
	Michelle Nowling University of Houston, '17 Charlottesville, 2014, 2015 Mentor: Arielle Moullet, Drew Brisbin	NASA Johnson Space Flight Center, Flight Controller in Mission Control
	Theodore Pena Tufts University, '21 Princeton Mentor:
	Adria Peterkin Howard University, '15 Socorro, 2015 Mentor: Lory Wingate, Demian Arancibia	UC Berkeley College of Engineering, '18 National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellowship Program (NGFP) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
	Antonio Porras University of N.C. Chapel Hill, 2015 Socorro, 2015 Charlottesville, 2016 Mentor: Aaron Evans	Fisk-Vanderbilt, '18 Vanderbilt, '23
	Diana Powell Harvard University, '14 Charlottesville, 2013 Mentor: Kartik Sheth	2015 NSF Grad Research Fellowship University of California, Santa Cruz, '20 PhD Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Anya Raj University of Washington, '17 Socorro, 2016 Mentor: Lory Wingate	SwarmFX
	Mihika Rao (she/hers) Agnes Scott College, '21 NRAO Charlottesville Mentor: Dana Balser
	Wesley Red South Carolina State University, '18 Charlottesville, 2017 Mentor: Dana Blaser
	Viviana Rosero Rueda New Mexico Tech, '13 Socorro 2013	New Mexico Tech, 2017 PhD Astronomy, 2017 University of Virginia/University of Florida Research Associate, 2018
	Danielle Rowland Columbia University '19, Astrophysics STScI, 2017 Mentor: Lou Strolger	Helen Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History, 2019-2020 Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Programme for Students (LEAPS) 2019 Chambliss Award, 233rd
	Linnea Saby Piedmont Virginia Community College, 2015 Charlottesville, 2015 Mentor: Lory Wingate	University of Virginia, '23 Civil and Environmental Engineering NAC/NINE NINE Leadership
	Kelly Sanderson Old Dominion University, '17 Wisconsin-Madison, 2017 Mentor: Eric Wilcots	New Mexico State University, 2023 (entered Fall, 2018)
	Jafr-Tayar Shabazz Florida International University, '21 StScI Mentor: Kottler
	Jeanine Shea Bucknell University, '19 Charlottesville, 2016
	Miona Short University of Wisconsin, '16	Harvard Banneker, entered 2016
	Beverly Thackeray-Lacko California State University - San Bernadino, '17 Charlottesville, 2015 Mentor: Sabrina Stierwalt	2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship University of Maryland, College Park '23 PhD Astronomy
	Brianna Thomas Howard University Charlottesville, 2014 Mentor: Kartik Sheth email: bt717@uw.edu	Banneker Affiliate, '15 University of Washington, PhD Astronomy, '22 Chambliss Award, 229th
	Antoine Washington Rutgers University, 2020 Princeton, 2018 Mentor: Jenny Greene
	Jasmin Washington University of Virginia
	Alia Wofford Elizabeth City State University Charlottesville, 2016 and 2017 Mentors: Amanda Kepley; Jackie Villadsen	NASA, Winter 2018 Chambliss Honorable Mention, '18
	Aara'L Yarber Howard University, '16 Charlottesville, 2013, 2014 Mentors: Marcus Alfred, Kartik Sheth	Banneker Institute, '15 Pennsylvania State, '22
	Fatima Zaidouni fzaidoun@u.rochester.edu University of Rochester, '20 Princeton Mentor: Remy Joseph