Spotlight: Wendy A. Okolo, Aerospace Engineer at NASA

Wendy A. Okolo earned a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering from UTA and, at age 26, became the first black woman to earn a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2015.

Dr. Wendy is an aerospace research engineer at the Ames Research Center, a major NASA research center in California’s Silicon Valley.

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