Kiana Burgin

Kiana Burgin, MPH, currently serves as a Program Manager at the Space Development Agency since January 2025. Prior to this role, Kiana held positions at Teledyne Brown Engineering, including OSM/VIPR Integration and ISS Data Management Coordinator from October 2020 to January 2025. Kiana also worked as a Commercial Spaceflight Systems Engineer at Nanoracks LLC from December 2022 to June 2023 and as a Chemical Analyst at Indorama Ventures Xylenes & PTA from July 2019 to October 2020, where analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry and chromatography were employed. Early experience includes a Graduate Student Researcher position at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute, a Chemistry Tutor role at Calhoun Community College, and a Summer Intern role at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kiana holds a Master's degree in Public Health from Morehouse School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Tuskegee University.