Tag: Afrofuturism

sian proctor
03
Dec
2025
Posted in Women in Science, Tech & Innovation Women in Arts, Media & Entertainment

The Sky Shepherd: Sian Proctor – The First Black Woman to Pilot a Spacecraft and the Artist-Scientist Building Humanity’s Future Off-Planet

On September 15, 2021, at 8:02 p.m. EDT, a 51-year-old community-college geology professor from Tempe, Arizona, became…