Mehak Sarang

Mehak Sarang is a Master in Public Policy student at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, where she focuses on space policy and the societal implications of emerging technologies. Her work centers on lunar exploration, international cooperation, and the development of sustainable frameworks for humanity’s future in space.

Previously, Sarang served as Director of Industry Integration at the Open Lunar Foundation and as Payloads Manager at ispace U.S., where she worked on missions connected to NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Earlier, she led lunar exploration projects at the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative and contributed to research on the economics and business of space exploration at Harvard Business School.

She holds a B.A. in Physics from Wellesley College.