Katrina Jackson

Roles: Special Guest, Moderator

Katrina comes from a space science and digital video production background. She was previously the lead video producer for the Hubble Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Asteroid 120353 Katrinajackson was named after Katrina for her video production work on the OSIRIS-REx mission. In 2022, she created “Behind the Name: James Webb Space Telescope” — a YouTube documentary for the JustSpace Alliance that aired on Democracy Now! In 2025, Katrina’s narrative short film Aromcom won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at Rochester’s ImageOut Film Festival. Currently, Katrina is an associate science producer for NHK and a freelance video editor and science communicator.