Zócalo Public SquareXPRIZE Foundation CEO Anousheh Ansari – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 XPRIZE Foundation CEO Anousheh Ansari https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/06/21/xprize-foundation-ceo-anousheh-ansari/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/06/21/xprize-foundation-ceo-anousheh-ansari/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:01:44 +0000 Jer Xiong https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=143549 Anousheh Ansari is the CEO of XPRIZE, a nonprofit that organizes multi-million-dollar competitions to support scientific innovation that benefits humanity. She is the first female private space explorer and first Muslim woman in space. Before sitting on the panel for “What Makes a Great California Idea?,” part of the inaugural CalMatters Ideas Festival, she joined us in the green room to talk about the “spinning chair” training, Persian cuisine, and exploring space.

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