Presenters
Jessy Kate, Open Lunar Foundation
Jessy-Kate Schinger is Director of Policy and Governance for Open Lunar. She has co-created self-governing collectives, autonomous networks and place-based intentional communities for almost two decades. These projects have led to a broader interest in the foundational ingredients of international law, and new approaches to sovereignty, jurisdiction, and institution design….
Summary
Jessy Kate is an affiliate researcher at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). She is an alumni of the Fellowship for Good at the Institute of the Future, and the Innovation Fellowship at the City and County of San Francisco. She achieved a B.Sc. Astrophysics from Queen’s University Canada and an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. She has several years of graduate study in distributed computing systems from the University of Maryland.
In this session she talks about her experiences working for NASA, Open Lunar, Astra, and other Space organizations. Jessy focuses on Open Lunar and Space Policy, setting positive precedents for space and figuring out public space utilities as well as government and private resource ownership.