From East Los Angeles to NASA: Turning Setbacks Into a Career Among the Stars Guest: Irene Chan
What happens when a young girl from East Los Angeles discovers a love for flight…
but doesn’t have a family roadmap showing her how to reach the stars?
In this episode of The Wisdom Transfer, we sit down with Irene Chan, a flight planning engineer supporting NASA’s International Space Station and Artemis programs.
Irene’s journey into aerospace engineering is anything but ordinary.
Raised by a single mother in a first-generation immigrant family, Irene grew up surrounded by hardworking cooks and clerks—not engineers.
Her fascination with flight began through family travel and was later…
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