ADVANCE THE STATUS OF WOMEN.
LOCAL FUNDRAISERS
AMEILA EARHART
LUNCHEON 2025 SPEAKER
Kelly Moran will be our speaker this year at our Amelia Earhart Luncheon!
Ms. Moran works at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as a senior member of
the technical staff. She has 35 years of experience in the Aerospace industry.
Kelly has worked as a manufacturing engineer on the MD-80 aircraft line
which supports the Space Shuttle Main Engine as well as the RS-68
engine.
Currently, she works on the XRS-2200 linear aerospike engine at
JPL. Her current work supports NASA missions with assisting engineers across
the lab with subcontract work. Ms. Moran has supported the following NASA/JPL missions: CloutSat, Neo Surveyor, SWOT, SPHEREx, NISAR, Pysche, OCO-3, Europa Clipper, Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity), Mars 2020 (Perseverance), Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity), and Mars Sample Return, to name a few. Ms. Moran received her BS in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Southern California in 1988
and a Certificate of Program Management from The California Institute of Technology in 2002.In her spare time, she obtained her Private Pilot’s License in 1989 and is a member of good standing in the 99s. Kelly has a son, Nick, who is now working on his private pilot license.
AMELIA EARHART LUNCHEON
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
$60 PER PERSON
FRONTIER'S OF FLIGHT MUSEUM
DALLAS, TEXAS
11AM-1PM
In honor of early ZONTA member and aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, this luncheon provides a forum to inspire a new generation of girls and young women to follow Earhart’s trailblazing spirit into their own science, technology, engineering, and mathematics career paths.
We host an array of girls from middle and high schools across the Dallas area including Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center, Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, Dallas Police Department Youth Outreach Unit, Cedar Hill ISD Collegiate High School, New Tech High Coppell ISD, Hockaday, and other surrounding schools.
Proceeds from this luncheon fund three Ruth Maddox Young Women in Stem Awards. Typically, we give between 3 to 10 awards each year to college women pursuing STEM majors. Any additional proceeds support other Zonta initiatives for the support of women and girls including Our Friends Place, a transitional housing program for young women ages 18-24 who have experienced poverty, homelessness or abuse.
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Our Friends Place offers an important and unique service to abused and neglected girls ages 10 to 17, and young women ages 18 to 24 without family support. They are taught independent living skills and life skills, helping them to become productive members of society.
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