In 2014, Shotwell was appointed to the United States Export Import Bank's Advisory Committee and the Federal Aviation Administration’s Management Advisory Council. Shotwell was elected to the honorable grade of Fellow with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Through leadership in both corporate and external science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs, Shotwell has helped raise over $1.4 million for STEM programs reaching thousands of students nationwide. Shotwell received, with honors, her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics, and serves on their board. She has authored dozens of papers on a variety of space-related subjects. Benji Reed Benjamin “Benji” Reed is the director of Crew Mission Management at SpaceX. In this role he is helping spearhead the company’s development and certification efforts for the Crew Transportation System, including the Dragon spacecraft, Falcon 9 rocket, ground systems and operations. Prior to this position, Benji was a mission manager for Dragon cargo missions to the International Space Station, including the CRS-3 mission, which carried the first science payloads in the Dragon trunk. Over the past 20 years, he has been a leader in various commercial aerospace and NASA programs, including hardware development serving the Hubble Space Telescope, space station and planetary science missions. He spent many years as the co-owner of a software and Internet development firm and also has been a teacher. A native of Boulder, Colorado, Benji graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in mathematics, working at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy on programs, including the Far Ultraviolet Spectrographic Explorer and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. He lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and three children.