Jarita Holbrook
Jarita Holbrook is studying the LSST-Rubin collaboration documenting shifts in practice over the last ten years. They earned degrees in physics, astronomy and astrophysics from some of the finest universities in California: Caltech, SDSU and UC Santa Cruz. Post-PhD, Holbrook retooled to become a Cultural Astronomer. African Indigenous Astronomy, Astrophysicists in Africa, Contemporary Navigation by the Stars as well as the dark sides of Astrophysics culture are their areas of expertise. They have held leadership roles in the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC), the European Cultural Astronomy Society (SEAC), and the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society (HAD-AAS). Holbrook is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and has captured their love of travel in their web series The Science Tourist(s).
