I have been a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 2014, working on various projects including Mars Science Laboratory, Mars2020, and Psyche. I received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014 and a M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2021. I hope to learn about my local professional community and meet other Iranian American women working in the professional world here in California.