Dr. Shelley Canright

When I saw the movie Annihilation with my sister, she noticed a reference in the closing credits to a Dr. Shelley Canright at NASA.  I looked her up on Google and found this page:
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/leadership/bio_canrightOLD.html
I showed the web page to my friend over a cup of coffee and he said Dr. Shelley Canright looked like she could be my sister.  Well, she is a cousin.  Since the web is unstable, I am including her info here so it does not get lost.

Shelley Canright, Ph.D. Manager, STEM Education and Accountability Project
NASA

Dr. Shelley Canright taught elementary and middle school students prior to taking a position with NASA as precollege officer at the Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Virginia. Since 1999, she has provided program leadership and management to NASA’s Office of Education from NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. She has held several education positions with increasing responsibilities within the agency.

Canright led and managed NASA’s K-12 STEM education program across the agency’s 10 field centers. An educational technology and products office was established under her leadership to serve as a learning support system for NASA’s elementary and secondary, higher education, and informal divisions, including minority university programs.

She served three years as the Senior Advisor for NASA Education. In this role, she offered advice and assistance to the Associate and Deputy Associate Administrators for Education on investments in formal and informal STEM education. Her work included leading and coordinating NASA’s efforts in the STEM education priority areas within the Federal STEM Education 5-Year Strategic Plan.

Canright served in a one-year detail in the Administrator’s office supporting the Agency Council. She was the executive to the Administrator’s Executive Council and served as the team lead for the Office of Agency Council Staff. From October 2014-March 2015, Canright spent six months on an interagency assignment to the Performance Improvement Council where her focus was investigating analytic storytelling. Her work led to a federal wide summit on the topic.

In January 2016, Canright assumed duties as the STEM Education and Accountability program manager as well as the SEA project manager. She also has stepped into the role of managing the communication team in the HQ Education Office where a more intentional effort on success stories and power-of-story might be implemented.

Canright has a bachelor’s degree in early and middle childhood education and a master’s degree in educational policy and leadership from the Ohio State University. She earned a doctorate in instructional systems from the Pennsylvania State University.