SGx2026 Organizing Team
Meet the team – SGx 2026 is powered by students and young professionals coming together to push boundaries, spark innovation, and shape the future of space.
Managers
Rachita Puri is an Aerospace Engineer and the Starship Licensing Lead at the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation in Washington D.C. In her role, she ensures safe commercial space operations and she also leads the FAA’s stakeholder engagement with the NASA Commercial Crew Program, U.S. State Department, and foreign government agencies. For SGAC, Rachita has served as Co-Lead for the Space Safety and Sustainability Project Group and been on organizing teams for SGx2025 and SGFF2023. Rachita is an alumna of the International Space University’s 2023 Space Studies Program in Brazil and The Ohio State University’s class of 2020. In her free time, she enjoys reading, horseback riding, and painting scenes from her travels around the world.
Caroline Emmert Ellis is the Senior Manager of External Engagement at Rogue Space Systems. As such, she spearheads Rogue’s external communications, from social media to investor communications and industry relationship management. Her goal is to refine and reinforce not only the way that the rest of the world sees us, but how we see ourselves. After working at organizations like the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) and Foreign Policy Magazine, Caroline has acute knowledge of how to reach diverse stakeholders across the space industry and how to speak their language. As the Senior Content Manager for Space at AIAA, Caroline led the content development, execution, and multifaceted industry engagement of ASCEND and ASCENDxTexas. Through this, she designed strategic conversations on critical issues facing the entire space industry; bringing key challenges, gaps, and creative solutions into the spotlight across hundreds of panels, fireside chats, and keynotes. Her diligent work behind-the-scenes helped make these events some of the largest and most respected space-sector gatherings in the nation. An avid equestrian, she is currently working toward her USDF medals and has dabbled in eventing, polo, and mounted archery. She spends what free time she can scrounge together in the garden with her husband and three dogs.
Programs Team
Allie Traynor is a corporate strategy professional with experience providing strategic planning, growth analysis, and defense market assessments across the aerospace, defense, and space landscape. In her current role with Northrop Grumman she supports international growth initiatives for the enterprise. Allie previously guided strategic consulting engagements at Renaissance Strategic Advisors, supporting clients across the industry value chain, and led appropriations capture for national security clients at at DC advocacy firm. She’s excited by space defense, autonomous maritime systems, and a good book.
Tylor Cingle is the Business Development Manager at Astroscale U.S., where he is responsible for partnership growth, stakeholder engagement, and opportunity capture across national security space missions. Before joining Astroscale, Tylor held business development roles at Airbus U.S. Space & Defense and supported government relations and space policy at Velos, the National Security Space Association, and Ball Aerospace. With experience spanning industry, trade associations, and defense space, he brings a comprehensive understanding of the national security space ecosystem and the evolving commercial space landscape. Tylor holds a bachelors degree in Political Science from Kent State University and is based in Washington, D.C. He is an active contributor to the Washington D.C. space community, frequently supporting events and discussions that advance space resiliency and sustainability.
Event Coordinators
Oliver Du Bois is an Operations and Business Analyst at Quantum Space, where he supports strategic planning and operational execution for space mobility and infrastructure initiatives. He earned a B.S. in Spaceflight Operations with a concentration in Space Law and Policy from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a M.A. in International Science and Technology Policy with a concentration in Space Policy from George Washington University. He previously interned with the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and served as a co-author of Redshift: The Acceleration of China’s Commercial and Civil Space Enterprise & The Challenge to America, a strategic report analyzing China’s expanding space capabilities and implications for U.S. competitiveness and national security. He has also presented research at the 75th International Astronautical Congress, contributing to international dialogue on human spaceflight participant screening and policy considerations. One fun fact about Oliver is that he grew up in Florida and had to walk past alligators on his way home almost everyday for years.
Alden Findley is a double Cane from the University of Miami. During his undergraduate studies, he studied international relations and geography focusing on public health and national security topics. During his graduate program and more recently, he focused on space policy working with several Washington D.C. based groups to include Space Foundation, Satellite Industry Association, and Velos Consulting. Alden also was a part of the University of Miami RocketCanes team that competes annually in NASA’s Student Launch program. Alden has participated in several Space Generation Fusion Forums as an organizing team member and moderator. This past fall he was in Sydney, Australia as a delegate for SGC 2025. Actively taking part in space community events, especially engaging with new members is a point of passion for him. In his free time, Alden enjoys hiking, sailing, and finding new places to eat in Washington D.C.
Communications Team
Ayumi Tsuyuki is a Master’s student at Columbia University studying Mechanical Engineering. Previously, she earned her Bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. She also worked at Northrop Grumman on the Mission Extension Pods (MEP) program and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Lunar Gateway. She is enthusiastic about the space community, as a previous Communications team member for SGx, SGFF, and the social media manager for the Future Space Leaders Foundation. Finally, she is also the co-founder and president of The Asian Aerospace and Aviation Organization (TAAAO), a newly-incorporated organization for uplifting Asian voices in the aerospace and aviation industries. In her free time, she enjoys running, reading, and is studying for her private pilot’s license!
Career Development Team
Katie attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) where she played D1 college soccer and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biomechanics with a Minor in Mathematics. Mrs. Borremans currently works as a Systems Engineer at NASA in the Strategy and Architecture Office’s (SAO) Mars Architecture Team and Element Definition & Integration group. Katie received the 2023 NASA Exploration Scholarship to attend the SGC and IAC in Baku and was part of the 2025 SGFF Organizing Team. She is currently continuing her education at Texas A&M University where she is pursuing a Master of Science in Engineering Management with a concentration in Systems Engineering.
Shriya Musuku is Mechanical Engineer (BS/MS) and an incoming medical student with experience in robotics and computational fluid dynamics. She is an analog astronaut and participated in the World’s Biggest Analog at MDRS as the Crew Scientist and Health Officer. She was also a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician & Firefighter and is passionate about healthcare on Earth and in space.
