Adriana Ocampo

She serves as lead program executive for NASA's New Frontiers Program, overseeing missions including Juno (Jupiter), New Horizons (Pluto), and OSIRIS-REx (asteroid sample return).

Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, she got a summer job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after her junior year of high school and kept working there while earning her geology degrees, eventually becoming a planetary geologist whose research helped identify the Chicxulub impact crater in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

B.S. in Geology, California State University, Los Angeles; M.S. in Planetary Geology, CSU Northridge; Ph.D. in Planetary Science, University of Amsterdam

Her NASA career started with a single high-school summer job — proof that an early, small opportunity can grow into leading multi-billion-dollar space missions.

Ejecutiva de programas de la NASA que dirige las misiones New Frontiers a Júpiter, Plutón y un asteroide, cuya carrera comenzó con un empleo de verano en la preparatoria en el JPL.

• Adriana Ocampo — NASA Science Mission Directorate
• Adriana Ocampo — Wikipedia (cross-checked)