“People see me now, and they just assume, ‘oh, she had it easy,’” she says, but Rose Ferreira has had it anything but easy. The trajectory of her life has been so turbulent, in fact, that NASA, her previous employer, published a feature article about her determination on its website. That story chronicles her journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in the Caribbean and years living unhoused, to pursuing her education and rising to become a NASA intern, which ultimately led to working at the space agency full-time. In January, that…
Read MoreNASA celebrated this employee’s story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.
