East High School graduate Felicia Gordon Sanders, who now works as the Deputy Manager Deep Space Network for NASA, recently spoke to female students in the Young Women Empowered for Leadership’s Annual Spring Forum held at the Career & Technical Center (CTEC). YWEL is an organization that inspires female students to be more confident, develop more effective communication skills to reach their college and career goals. Sanders told the audience to not let anything stand in way of your goals and dreams.

“I don’t often get a chance to share my journey and coming from Bakersfield I’m so proud and honored to be a graduate of East Bakersfield High School; and to have been able to go on and work for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),” says Sanders. “And, to share that journey with others I hope has been inspiring and will eventually lead to others following in my footsteps.”

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