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“I started manifesting it”: How this NASA administrator landed her dream job

Madhavi Latha Balijepalle turned a daily commute into her dream job at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

Latha Balijepalle, a senior database administrator at NASA Ames, encourages others to take a risk and pursue challenges in their work, like trying something new that might open doors to a new opportunity. / NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrete

What started as a daily drive past NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley soon became a bold career move for Madhavi Latha Balijepalle, who now works as a senior database administrator at the space agency's Airspace Operations Laboratory (AOL).

Balijepalle’s journey to NASA began from a small town in southern India, where she studied electrical engineering and worked in information technology before an unexpected turn led her to moving to the United States with her husband. 
 

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