Emily Sespico is an assistant director at the GeoTech Center, where she focuses on geopolitical implications of emerging technologies, and has a specific interest in humanitarian applications of space and satellite tech.

Sespico joined the GeoTech Center following an internship with the Atlantic Council, prior to which she worked as an intern at NASA, the US Department of State, and the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Sespico received her bachelor’s degree in astrophysics and international relations and politics from Carnegie Mellon University.