Your passport – an open door to opportunity, or a lifetime lockout? | Maya Nasr | TEDxMIT

Witness the never-ending struggle of Maya Nasr, a PhD candidate at MIT who is working on the NASA Mars Perseverance Mission, to overcome the limitations imposed by her passport that prevent Maya from fully contributing her learning and passion to human’s exploration of space.
Maya Nasr is a PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering department at MIT, working with Professor Jeffrey Hoffman on the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) for NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. A native of Lebanon, she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering from MIT in 2018 and 2021 respectively. Currently, she is also working on an ISS payload with the MIT Space Exploration Initiative (SEI). She has previously worked on several projects including NASA’s Cassini mission activity on Titan, NASA’s New Frontiers Saturn Probe mission, the OneWeb satellites network, the MIT KitCube Satellite, Zero Robotics ISS programming competition and the AquaMAV at Imperial College London.

[AstroMarta]

One of the most profound TED talks ever! Thank you for sharing the struggle we all face! ❤

[emmajbr]

Amazing talk Maya, I can only feel your struggle. I have, like all international students, experienced this discrimination countless times when applying to internships and jobs. Keep on breaking glassdoors :)

[halimnasr]

Go ahead dear Maya. May allmighty life bless you. Your uncke is sooo proud.

[historia]

I think the problem your pointing out would be solved by us having a world government that governs not just a sector, country, or continent...but the whole world. Imagine having a world without having a problem with nationality...only then, the expansion of the whole humanity into space would be more than just a dream...

[basseltarabay]

It couldn't have been said any better!

[markcampbell]

Isn't it a Violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to develop and use a nuclear battery powered Rover on Mars. Why is Edison generators considered to be too heavy?

[S_A_P_]

So less views, so less comments despite so many subscribers.