Conversations with Goddard: Jody Davis

1. 0:00I actually didn't know what an engineer really was until I was about 13 years old.
2. 0:09I had always been interested in space, planets, you know, our solar system
3. 0:13and stars, and I was also interested in design. So then I watched the movie
4. 0:18Apollo 13 and I learned what aerospace engineering was, and how that was a
5. 0:24beautiful marriage of my love of space and my love of design, and then I had
6. 0:30something to shoot for. And I fell in love with NASA.
7. 0:34Conversations with Goddard Featuring: Jody Davis I'm the deputy payload systems engineer on WFIRST, at Goddard. So, my
8. 0:44education background, I went to Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University and I got
9. 0:49my bachelor's in aerospace engineering. Then I went on to grad school at UVA and
10. 0:54got a master's in aerospace and mechanical engineering. Before all of
11. 0:59that I fell in love with flying. I was in high school right about the time that I
12. 1:05was learning to drive. I started flying. Before school I
13. 1:09would go fly, get my hours in, and then after school I would work at a hair
14. 1:15salon to actually pay for my flying lessons, and I ended up getting my pilot's license by senior year of high school.
15. 1:23I like to do STEM outreach a lot,
16. 1:25and at one point I was like, "You know what? I really would love to do
17. 1:30international STEM outreach." I found a nonprofit organization in
18. 1:34Tanzania called Project Inspire, and I went out and I talked about NASA with
19. 1:41them for two and a half weeks. I plan to go back about every other year.
20. 1:45I like challenges, and I came up with this idea once I started running marathons, and I
21. 1:52want to run a marathon on every continent before I'm 50. The last one I
22. 1:56ran was in Iceland, and then the next one that I have planned is to run the Mount
23. 2:02Fuji marathon in Japan. Yes, I did climb Kilimanjaro I still can't believe it.
24. 2:06It's a 19,300 foot peak, it was the hardest thing I've ever done.
25. 2:11And getting to the top, you're kind of almost euphoric. What I enjoy most
26. 2:16about working at Goddard, is the people. To tie it all together we have a very
27. 2:20capable, hard-working team, and I crave that highly collaborative environment,
28. 2:26where even as issues crop up you know that you can pull your team together and
29. 2:29find the right answer. My six-word memoir is she inspired and uplifted the world.
30. 2:40Explore NASA

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