Mackenzie Pereira
Junior Fellow, Outer Space Institute
Mackenzie Pereira is a Junior Fellow at the Outer Space Institute (OSI), working at the intersection of science and policy. She is an MSc student in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia, where her research focuses on outer space policy at the sustainability-security nexus. Her thesis is supervised by the co-directors of the OSI, Dr. Aaron Boley, an astrophysicist, and Dr. Michael Byers, an international lawyer.
Mackenzie is also a Space Security Research Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and a Research Associate with the PlanetStewards Project. She holds a BSc in Physics from McGill University.
