Twooting Episode #0095: Stephanie Schierholz from NASA
Wednesday, May 26th 2010 @ 7:13 AM (not yet rated)
[25:55] Stephanie Schierholz is NASA’s social media manager and an agency spokesperson. She has 10 years’ experience leading strategic communications, media relations, and public outreach efforts. She provides strategic communications guidance to NASA’s senior management and is an advocate for incorporating emerging communications technologies into the agency’s public outreach activities. Ms. Schierholz also is a public affairs specialist and spokesperson for the agency’s Space Operations Mission Directorate that leads and executes NASA’s human spaceflight missions on the space shuttle and International Space Station. She plans, conducts and executes agency news conferences, television events and webcasts announcing billion-dollar contracts, significant scientific discoveries, and the development, testing and launch of spacecraft. In her role as social media manager, she leads NASA’s social media activities, including the primary NASA Twitter account, @NASA, and NASA Tweetups in Washington and at shuttle launches. She initiated and led the development of a NASA Stylebook and was a contributing editor to “NASA: 50 Years of Exploration and Discovery.” Before coming to NASA, Ms. Schierholz was the director of communications for the Space Foundation. When not dreaming of spaceflight, she is the secretary for Women in Aerospace and an inaugural member of the British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020.
