Executive Director of Operations, Brinson Exploration Hub
Rachel Etheredge is the Executive Director of Operations at the Brinson Exploration Hub at Caltech, where she manages daily operations.
Rachel's career spans over 15 years and includes creative and operations leadership roles in the media and music industries. Before joining Caltech, she served as Deputy Project Manager for Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS), a technology development project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she co-led a team of 50 engineers and scientists. She also served as Lead Producer for JPL's The Studio, enabling a team of communications strategists, storytellers and designers.
Rachel holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Recorded Music from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.