Aries Keck is social media team lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md, the first time NASA Goddard had someone in that position full-time. In her first year, the NASA Goddard Social Media Team won a 'Shorty Award' in social media for government.
Previous to being hired at NASA, Keck was the producer and director of Earthbeat Radio, an
hour-long broadcast in America dedicated to global warming. From 2001 - 2006 Keck was a reporter for WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, for which she won a number of national Associated Press awards as well as a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television. She is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio (NPR) and the public radio program Marketplace. Keck is the author of the 2004 non-fiction book Einstein A to Z with co-author Karen C. Fox. She graduated from Lehigh University and yes, 'Aries Keck' is her real, legal
name.