Ginger Kerrick is currently the chief strategy officer of Barrios Technology, a woman-owned aerospace company in Houston. Prior to joining Barrios’ executive team in 2021, she served in multiple senior leadership roles at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Most recently, she was deputy director of the Exploration Integration and Science Directorate, a Senior Executive Service position, and NASA Johnson’s assistant center director for Vision and Strategy. She spent the majority of her 30-year NASA career supporting NASA Johnson’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) in leadership roles, including assistant director for International Space Station, Flight Integration Division chief, and flight director – supporting both the International Space Station and Space Shuttle programs. Early in her career, she was NASA’s first Russian training integration instructor supporting the Expedition 1 crew, as well as being selected as the first non-astronaut capsule communicator. Kerrick has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in physics from Texas Tech University and currently serves as vice chairwoman of the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents.