This week on the podcast, host Joanna Roche, Executive Director of the Maria Mitchell Association, sits down with Dr. Jackie Milingo, the new Director of Astronomy at the MMA. Jackie shares her inspiring journey into the stars, from the moment she first saw Halley’s Comet as a child, to studying astronomy at the University of Kansas and the University of Oklahoma, and later teaching as a visiting professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. Now on Nantucket, she talks about what drew her to the island, her passion for astronomy education, and her vision for the future of the MMA’s astronomy programs.
