Aaron Yazzie is Native American Diné (Navajo) engineer who works for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He graduated from Stanford in 2008 and has worked for NASA since. He works specifically with recovery systems with Mars landing. The goal is to recover rocks and materials from Mars. He says that the surface of Mars is very similar to his native Arizona and Navajo lands.
Yazzie also works with youth groups, recruiting them for STEM studies, particularly Native Americans. He is involved in American Indian Science and Engineering Society. He was president of the Stanford chapter.
Excerpts from Notable Native Americans by Adrienne Keene.
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