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i've seen and continued to see historic

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photos of jpl and and the people that

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worked here in the beginning

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having an imperfect pass is fine but

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really trying to build a better future

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is what warms my heart

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there's been a tremendous change over

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the 45 years i've been at jpl

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i first started at jpl in the late 1970s

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as part of the voyager team

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and there weren't very many women

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but over the years i've seen that really

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change

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and now there are many more women in

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roles across the project including upper

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leadership roles young women have really

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embraced country science also in general

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space exploration

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i think one of the things that i really

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enjoy about jpl is that even as a young

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engineer i was always given a seat at

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the table and listened to

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any given mission you find people that

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are from different countries i'm

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originally from tunisia i work here

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we find people from all over the world

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here and that diversity has been great

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because i didn't feel that as an

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immigrant

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i was something different

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there were lots of people like me

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inclusion is so important to the success

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of jpl because we need to attract the

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right people to tackle the issues that

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we have at hand to be able to send all

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of these complex robotics to other

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planets and moons

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we land rovers on mars and fly

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helicopters these are not easy things

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and not things that are written in

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textbooks we have to keep pushing the

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envelope and we are only going to be

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able to do that if we have teams that

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work well together that feel accepted

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together but that can also look at a

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problem come at it a different way with

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a whole different set of experience and

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bring that to the table

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it takes small microaggressions small

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gestures for someone to feel othered for

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someone to feel not included or part of

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the culture and part of the group and

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when you don't feel part of the group

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it's hard to collaborate

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so it's a teamwork it's a team effort

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all of those led me to say you know this

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is where i want to be i've been here

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about 17 years i really cherished and

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enjoyed every moment of it it's very

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refreshing and encouraging to see that

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change

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not only to have more women but have

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greater diversity here at jpl

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jpl provides a supportive and nurturing

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environment all the way from the top

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they have these two new classes for

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example were released on reducing bias

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and understanding gender differences at

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jpl and by the end of 2020 86 of

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managers took one of those two courses

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which is amazing

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culture and changes start from the top

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and that's what jpl is committed to

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i found that people have accepted me for

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who i am i mean i'm not exactly your

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typical engineer and i felt comfortable

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you know dyeing my hair again once i

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started working here and being sort of

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my you know

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my loud and loud self during that time i

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had my daughters and other children were

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born to voyager moms and then working on

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cassini i can bring my grandchildren to

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see jpl it's really been a

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multi-generational journey of

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exploration

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i consider myself very lucky to have

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ended up at jpl and to have been here

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for so many years it really nurtured me

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it offered me tremendous opportunities