March 8 each year is International Women’s Day, and March is Women's History Month. For NASA, women have played crucial roles, as you may find on the NASA Women and Girls Initiative page and the Women at NASA page.

The NASA Kepler Mission honors and values the women on our team, some of whom are shown here:

Natalie Batalha Co-Investigator San Jose State University San Jose, CA 95192	Edna DeVore Co-Investigator SETI Institute Mountain View, CA 94043	Andrea Dupree Kepler Science Working Group Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) Cambridge, MA 02138
Jill Tarter Kepler Science Working Group SETI Institute Mountain View, CA 94043	Lucianne Walkowicz Kepler Science Working Group 2011 TED Global Fellow University of California, Berkeley	Karen Kinemuchi Guest Observer Office Support Scientist
Marcie Smith Mission Director	Sally Cahill Business Manager	Jessie Christiansen Science Office (SO) Support Scientist
Susan Thompson SO Support Scientist	Jennifer Hall Science Operations Center (SOC) Operations Engineer Lead	Khadeejah Ibrahim SOC Operations Engineer
Michele Johnson Public Affairs Officer	Laura McArthur-Hines Business Office - Finance	Wendy Stenzel Graphics/Science Communications
Elisa Quintana Research Scientist	Jessie Dotson Former Deputy Science Office Director	Sue Blumenberg Former SOC Tech & Science Writer
Hayley Wu Former SOC Scientific Programmer	Pamela Harman Education and Public Outreach	Maura Rabbette Former Research Scientist

We also remember and honor Janice Voss, who served as Kepler Science Office Director in vital years of the Kepler Mission, passed away on Monday, February 6, 2012.

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