Jenn Gustetic, NASA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

A chat with friend Jenn Gustetic from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) headquarters. Jenn, who has an aerospace engineering degree and a master's in technology policy from MIT, is currently in NASA's Space Technology Directorate where she is focused on public sector innovation--connecting NASA with entrepreneurs as the Program Executive for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR/STTR). She was the first-ever Challenges and Prizes program executive at NASA before being detailed to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the White House where she served as Assistant Director for Open Innovation.  More about OSTP: https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp More about CitizenScience.gov: https://www.citizenscience.gov More about NASA: http://www.nasa.gov More about XPRIZE: http://www.xprize.org Watch NASA JPL's 7 minutes of Terror here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s Jenn and Jonathan having some fun at NASA Ames: https://vimeo.com/182807638 http://www.explorers.institute/podcast/Jenn.mp3