As the Manager for Strategic Planning and Policy Development in NASA’s Innovative Partnership Program, Ms. Hoyt is responsible for developing strategies, plans and tactics to enhance NASA’s ability to nurture innovation in support of the NASA mission. Since joining NASA in 1991, she has contributed to the success of multiple offices at NASA Headquarters, including: the Space Exploration Office, where she served as the Deputy Director, Policy and Outreach; the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications, as Director of Policy and Outreach; the Office of Policy and Plans, the Office of External Relations; and also in the Office of Infrastructure as the Deputy Manager for Infrastructure Transition, as well as the lead for strategic planning and policy development.
Prior to joining NASA, she served the former Secretary of the Department of the Interior Manuel Lujan, Jr. as the Deputy Director, Office of Policy Analysis. From 1979-1987 she worked for the U.S. House of Representatives in a variety of positions: Press Secretary, and Legislative Assistant for Congressman Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Executive Director of the Congressional Space Caucus, and as Committee Staff for the House Science and Technology Committee. Ms. Hoyt is the founder and first President of Women in Aerospace and the founder and first chair of the Congressional Staff Space Group. Prior to coming to Washington, D.C. she served as press secretary to Honolulu Mayor Frank F. Fasi and previously worked as a reporter-broadcaster for KHVH all news Radio in Honolulu. A Danforth Teaching Fellow at Philips Andover Academy, she taught French at both Andover and the University of Maine in Orono. She holds a Diplome de Langue et de Lettres Francaises (L’Institut Pour Les Etudiants Etrangers, Aix-en-Provence), an MS in Science and Technology Studies (VA Tech), MA (ABT) in French Literature, and is scheduled to complete her PhD in Science and Technology Studies at VA Tech this year. She is fluent in French.