Rae Stanley

I am a 19 year old, female physics student at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. I come from a coal mining family in rural Lincoln County, West Virginia. I have a passion for astronomy and mathematics. Specifically, I am most interested in planetary science and fluid dynamics. I have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a connective tissue disease, and I use my home bakery to raise money for the Ehlers-Danlos Society. In two years I will graduate from Marshall University with a bs in physics and a bs in biology. I hope to attend graduate school at the University of Colorado, Boulder to obtain a PhD in astrophysics. Afterwards, I hope to work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in their planetary science division.

May 2017