{"id":688,"date":"2026-04-10T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/space-connect\/?page_id=688"},"modified":"2026-04-20T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:52:29","slug":"2026-e-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/space-connect\/2026-e-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls & Space: Pathways to the stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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\r\n Girls & Space:
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As frontier technologies become embedded in critical space systems, ensuring that girls and young women participate in designing, operating, and governing these technologies is essential. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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This episode will spotlight women, including a young professional voice, working at the intersection of space systems, AI, and development, demonstrating that girls are not only beneficiaries of resilient connectivity, but the architects of its future.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n\n

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Agenda \u2013 Episode 3<\/h2>\n<\/div> \n
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15:00 – 15:05<\/div><\/div>
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Presentation of the session and the panelists by the Moderator<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

\"Edith
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Edith Hattie Kalagho<\/h3>

Co-founder<\/p>

Spatial Girls Network<\/p><\/div>

Edith Hattie Kalagho is a land surveyor, drone pilot, and passionate advocate for digital inclusion who co-founded the Spatial Girls Network, an initiative empowering girls and young women to lead in geospatial science and technology. Through hands-on training in open mapping, drones, and remote sensing, Edith is bridging gender gaps in digital transformation and building a future where women in Malawi can help shape solutions to climate, food security and development challenges.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
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15:05 \u2013 16:00<\/div><\/div>
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16:00 \u2013 16:25<\/div><\/div>
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Speakers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>
\"Edith
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Edith Hattie Kalagho<\/h3>

Moderator<\/p>

Co-founder<\/p>

Spatial Girls Network<\/p><\/div>

Edith Hattie Kalagho is a land surveyor, drone pilot, and passionate advocate for digital inclusion who co-founded the Spatial Girls Network, an initiative empowering girls and young women to lead in geospatial science and technology. Through hands-on training in open mapping, drones, and remote sensing, Edith is bridging gender gaps in digital transformation and building a future where women in Malawi can help shape solutions to climate, food security and development challenges.<\/div><\/div>
\"Agnes
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Agnes Chavez<\/h3>

Panelist<\/p>

Founder<\/p>

STEMarts lab<\/p><\/div>

Agnes Chavez is an interdisciplinary new media artist and educator. Her work integrates art, science and technology as tools to inspire artistic, scientific and humanistic literacy and to raise awareness to humanitarian and ecological issues. She explores data visualization, light, sound and space to create immersive and educational installations that seek balance between mind and matter, science and art, nature and technology.\n\nShe is the founder of\u00a0STEMarts Lab, which designs and delivers sci-art installations and STEAM programming for schools, art\/science organizations and festivals. STEMarts Lab produces the\u00a0STEMarts Curriculum Tool, an online platform that complements art and science festivals with STEAM teacher resources built around the work of curated artists.\n\nShe has developed STEAM programs for ATLAS@CERN, Scholastic, 516 Arts, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and for the ISEA2012 electronic arts festival. In 2014 she co-founded\u00a0The PASEO\u00a0outdoor participatory art festival in Taos New Mexico, whose mission is to transform community through art and art through community. She developed the\u00a0SUBE, Language through Art, Music & Games program, now in its 25th year.\u00a0<em>Sci-art installations and STEMarts LAB youth workshops are available\u00a0 for contracting or commission.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Maya
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Maya Nasr<\/h3>

Panelist<\/p>

Project Lead & Co-Founder,<\/p>

HUMANS (ISS\/Moon\/Deep Space) & Science Engineer,<\/p>

MethaneSAT, Harvard<\/p><\/div>

<span data-teams="true">Maya Nasr is a Postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard SEAS and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), focusing on the mission planning for in-orbit Lunar calibrations of the MethaneSAT project, with expertise in spacecraft operations, engineering systems, technology strategy, and space law and policy. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-teams="true">Maya holds Bachelor's, Masters, and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. Passionate about increasing global representation and access in the space sector and raising awareness about nationality-based discrimination. Project lead and co-founder of HUMANS, an ISS and Lunar symbolic avenue for space access worldwide. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-teams="true">Also served as co-lead of the Space Law & Policy Project Group at SGAC. Experienced in several space projects, including MOXIE for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, Cassini's mission activity on Titan, and the OneWeb satellites network.<\/span><\/div><\/div>
\"Raha
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Raha Hakimdavar<\/h3>

Panelist<\/p>

Senior Advisor to the Deans of GU-Q and Earth Commons<\/p>

Founder & CEO<\/p>

Zyon Space<\/p><\/div>

Dr. Raha Hakimdavar is a hydrologist, science policy expert, and space science leader with a proven record of innovation across government, academia, and industry. She is currently a Research Professor at the Earth Commons and Senior Advisor to the Deans at Georgetown University in Qatar and the Earth Commons, leading strategy and programs focused on environmental security, climate action, and sustainability research and education. She has active research projects in Greece (water scarcity), the Middle East (water and food security), and Indonesia (flood risk and nature based solutions), with a special focus on small islands.\r\n\r\nPreviously, she was Director of Space Sciences at Ball Aerospace, where she advanced partnerships and scientific initiatives with NASA, NOAA, and international space agencies. Her public service includes leadership roles at the USDA Forest Service and as a Presidential Management Fellow at NASA Goddard. There, she helped shape UN Environment\u2019s SDG 6 methodology and co-developed a U.S. government-wide water security framework, now used operationally by the U.S. Air Force. At the USDA, she pioneered a national science-based approach to watershed health assessments, directly informing federal policy and forest-level resilience investments. Dr. Hakimdavar has served as a technical consultant for UN Environment, the World Bank, and USAID on disaster risk reduction, water, and forestry projects for over a decade.\r\n\r\nDr. Hakimdavar is also the Founder and CEO of Zyon Space, which supports emerging space agencies and organizations in the Global South in leveraging Earth observation technologies for climate and environmental resilience.\r\n\r\nDr. Hakimdavar holds a B.S. in civil engineering from California State Polytechnic University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in hydrology from Columbia University. She served as a Fulbright Fellow in Water Management in the Netherlands and was awarded the 2018 KLM Sustainability and Innovation award for her efforts.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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