Sheyene Gerardi
Sheyene Gerardi (born April 13) is a Venezuelan  actress, producer and businessperson. She is also a mining executive, co-founder NASA´s Planetary Landing Team. Gerardi has worked with the Next Generation Committee of the Robotics Society of Japan. In 2018, Sheyene was named as the Lead for Robotics Outreach at NASA’s Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS), the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) and The Florida Space Institute (FSI) network. While working at NASA, she co-founded the NASA´s Planetary Landing Team. It is a part of the Center for Lunar & Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS) at University of Central Florida (UCF).  During her time at NASA, she also founded the Sheyene Institute. It is, a company that works on technologies for use on the Moon, Mars and asteroids. These are known as “space resources” to support NASA missions. She leads two philanthropic organizations through the Sheyene Gerardi Foundation.  They are The Sheyene School and Sheyene e-health. The main goal of the Sheyene School is to increase peoples understanding of technology. Sheyene e-health is a system to spread information about rare diseases. It was created after she became a survivor of an unclassifiable splenic small B-Cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare cancer. Sheyene is member to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and the committee on professional ethics, rights, and freedoms.