Elaine Ho serves as NASA’s Chief Diversity Officer, providing executive and transformative leadership over diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) policy and programs for the entire NASA workforce. Ho is a long-time public servant who has been connected to DEIA throughout her career, having held multiple high-level positions at the Department of Agriculture, IRS, and the White House. Prior to her federal service career, Ho was a practicing attorney, specializing in employment law and workplace diversity and inclusion, and served over four years active duty as an Air Force criminal prosecutor.
Key Takeaways:
Representation matters – you have to see it to be able to achieve it
Collaboration is everything
Trust is the foundation of successful collaboration
Meet people where they are at – put yourself in their shoes
Demonstrate the value of DEIA to get people onboard
There are times to be right and there are times to understand
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken
Authenticity is a lifelong state of self-reflection
Guest’s Media Recommendations:
The Space Race (documentary)
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Find Guest’s work:
NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/
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