About Moses

My passion is conveying the wonders of the natural world through science, education, and inclusiveness.

I am an educator, community growth expert, product developer, project manager, and a remote sensing and data scientist.

I have been an active participant on eight of NASA’s spacecraft missions, starting with the Magellan mission to Venus in the early 1990s to Juno currently orbiting Jupiter and JPL’s Europa Clipper mission currently in development. As a scientist and educator, I know that a welcoming community, inclusion, accessibility, and diversity are fundamental to strong teams, strong science, and a strong future.

As part of my passion for education, I took a year off from science to teach mathematics, robotics, and computer science to middle and high school students at a local school. Since returning to science, I have continued my education activities through participating in mentoring programs and occasionally teaching a class or course as the need arises.

I work to improve inclusion and welcoming environments through anti-harassment education and have developed Other Orb’s bystander intervention, mentorship workshops, and other workshops. The bystander intervention workshop was originally aimed at improving the community growth in scientific workplaces, but I have extended it to include all workplaces.

When I returned to science, I also helped develop, propose, and (after selection), lead an education initiative called PLANETS (Planetary Learning that Advances the Nexus of Engineering, Technology, and Science). PLANETS is an out-of-school-time planetary science, engineering, and exploration curriculum development project for middle- and elementary-school students. One of the major goals of PLANETS was to develop a model for curriculum development that includes as co-equal developers, from the very beginning, curriculum development experts (Museum of Science in Boston), educator professional development experts (Northern Arizona University, Center for Science Teaching, and Learning–also PI institution of the project), educators (distributed throughout the country), and planetary science subject matter experts (USGS Astrogeology Science Center).

In addition to image and data processing and science, I regularly provide bystander intervention workshops, participate in community growth workshops, help research and write white papers, and other efforts.