Katya Echazarreta, 27, pushes for a more potent Mexican Space Agency and encourages girls to embrace STEM study and careers.
already has appeared on the cover of Vogue Mexico, was a woman of the year for Glamour magazine’s Mexican edition, co-hosted the YouTube series “Netflix IRL” and has a Barbie doll in her likeness.
Echazarreta moved with her parents from her native Mexico to Chula Vista when she was 8. She is encouraging other young native Mexicans to shoot for the stars as she did, having studied electrical engineering in college, interned at NASA and worked on space mission ground support. A dark-haired, tan-skinned Barbie named Katya wearing a space suit is one way to start emphasizing a STEM career path early for Mexican girls.
Four years ago, she applied to the nonprofit Space for Humanity’s Citizen Astronaut Program for its seat on a Blue Origin flight. Her application was one of more than 7,000 competing for a free ride on the rocket ship. When the time came, she says her mind froze during the brief ride while she took in the sights which she described as “overwhelming wonder” — the curvature of the Earth, clouds, blue glow of the planet, intense heat of the sun as the spacecraft rotated and chilling deep black of outer space.
Echazarreta gets out into the community and uses her social media feeds to share her personal story, challenges and the hardships she’s overcome, and to show what’s possible through perseverance, Snyder says. “She’s a great advocate for why people love science and why scientists do what they do.”
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