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Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 32, African American History Month.

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your co-host today,

along with Kai Harris, the lead budget analyst for propulsion and power engineering division,

and the chair of the African American Employee Resource Group.

Kai, thanks for coming on.

Hey Gary, glad to be here.

So we have these groups here at the center called Employee Resource Groups and

Kai here is the chair of the African American Employee Resource Group.

So we teamed up to do a special episode for African American History Month where we'll be bringing in four guests that specialize in different areas across the center to do four unique segments.

That's right. We're very proud of our employee resource group and we have folks with the

ride range of skills. Today we have guests involved in life support systems, an

Orion flight controller, robotics engineering, and human health and performance.

Awesome, I'm excited that we can bring everyone together for this episode.

So this is pretty cool because you'll see all in one episode how many things are going on at the same time.

So, with no further delay, let's go light speed

and jump right ahead to talk with our guests

from across the center for African American History Month.

Enjoy. Enjoy. Mark. All right, Kai, thanks for helping me open up this episode. But before we go to our first

guest, I kind of wanted to set some context about ERGs, these employee resource groups.

So you can kind of start off by talking about what is an employee resource group here at the

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