MIT graduate Janelle Wellons recently became a Spaceflight Operations Engineer for a space company in Tokyo, Japan after spending nearly six years at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she made amazing inroads as an Instrument Operations Systems Engineer. I caught up with Janelle during her transition between jobs and had an opportunity to have a fun, casual, and insightful conversation with her about the challenges and rewards of navigating a career in aerospace. 

• Born in Santa Monica, California
• Age: 27
• Languages: English & Spanish
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  Education:
  • University of Southern California
    Master of Social Work - MSW
    2012-2023
  • University of Washington
    Sociology
    2011-2015
• Started running at 7
• Normally travels 3 times a year to Panama (pre-pandemic)
• Parents are Donna Washington (born in Colon, Panama) and John Woodruff (born in NY).
• She is the 2nd of 5 siblings. Her sister Yasmin also runs, she competes in the 100 and 200 meters and is a UCLA Alumni (c/o of 2013)
• Mother Donna played college soccer
• She was one of the top long hurdlers in the state of California, placing fourth in the 300-meter hurdles at the 2011 CIF finals 
• She set her PR in the CIF prelims, clocking 42.24 for the fastest prelim time ... that mark ranked her 18th nationally in 2011 and 10th among all graduating seniors
• She stepped up to the 400-meter hurdles at the 2011 USA Junior Championships, as she placed 10th overall in 1:03.10 
• She was second in the CIF Southern Section finals in the 300-meter hurdles, clocking 42.37 
• Won the Santa Fe/Santa Cruz League title in the long hurdles as a senior 
• Her junior year, placed sixth at state in the 300m hurdles in 42.91 seconds and also won the CIF-SS finals
• Ran the third leg on St. Mary's 4x100-meter relay that placed fourth at the state finals in 46.87 
• Also lettered in cross country in 2009 and 2010 
• Graduated with a 3.8 GPA. 

Aubriana Davis has been acting, singing and dancing since she was a little girl living in Albany, GA. Known as a "triple threat", it was not until she moved to Atlanta, GA at the age of 7, that she was introduced to the many facets of acting and began to fall even more in love with it. At the age of 11, she appeared in her first film "Jason Banks" (2011) and from there she landed her first lead role in a musical production of "High School Musical, Jr." (2013) without any prior professional training. A lover of theatre, she went on to perform lead in several musicals such as "Fame" (2017), "Cinderella" (2017), "42nd Street" (2018) and "Cover of Life" (2019).

Aubriana landed a big break when she hit the big screen with Director Clint Eastwood in the American biographical drama film, Richard Jewell (2019) (2019) at only 18 years old! Very shortly after, she went on to work with Director Barry Jenkins in The Underground Railroad (2021) (2021) and Director Anthony Hemingway in a recurring role on the National Geographic series, Genius (2017): Aretha (2021), starring Cynthia Erivo, Courtney B. Vance and Pauletta Washington. She then landed the role of Janelle Carr for season 2 of Netflix's Raising Dion (2019) (2021). Aubriana's additional television credits includes the Season 4 premiere of The Resident (2018) (2021).

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Team Aubriana