A graduate of the first generation, Nilufar Ramji was flamboyant trails long before arriving at NASA. With its multifaceted expertise, it helps to shape messaging behind the return of humanity to the moon, Mars and beyond.
Ramji is currently on details as an executive co-producer of NASA live broadcasts, ensuring that the agency’s missions and discoveries are clearly and effectively communicated to the public. Thanks to her work, she expands understanding of what the exploration of space for all means – and why it is important.
Before entering into his role as an actor, Ramji was responsible for public affairs for Moon’s activities in Mars at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. She has managed communication strategies for the sales of Lunar Payload Services Initiative, which works with private companies to provide useful scientific and technological charges to the lunar surface. She also provided live comments to the operations of the International Space Station to learn and prepare Artemis missions.
Ramji played a central role in the communication of the involvement of NASA in two major lunar missions in 2025, in particular Blue Ghost Mission 1 of Firefly Aerospace which succeeded 10 useful charges from NASA to the Mare Crisium de la Lune on March 2. She also directed communications for the IM-2 mission of intuitive machines, which landed near the southern pole of the moon on March 6, marking the lunar landing the most southern ever reached.
At the start of her NASA career, she directed STEM communications on the agency scale, shaping how NASA connects to students and educators. As a main strategist, she has developed messages that have made science and technology more accessible to the younger public, which concerns the generation of Artemis.
“Being one of the storytellers of the return of humanity to the moon is something I am proud of,” she said. “People do not realize what the exploration of our solar system has done for us here on Earth. Go to the moon and Mars bring this message back to the house. ”
Ramji communicates not only the science of space, but its greatest importance. “How can we be reflected in our communications?” is a question that leads to his approach. Whether it is to guide a live broadcast or develop messages on lunar science, it constantly evaluates, executes and refines the voice of NASA.
It also includes the importance of commercial partnerships in the expansion of human presence in space. “It’s exciting to see how many different people and organizations meet to make a reality,” she said. “By creating a larger spatial economy, we are able to do things faster and cheaper and achieve the same objectives to ensure that we all succeed.”
In August 2023, Ramji delivered a Tedx conference, “Storytelling from Space” in Sugar Land, Texas, where she highlighted the power of the story to inspire and unite humanity in the quest to explore the universe. Based on her experience of NASA, she illustrated how communication fills the gap between complex science and public commitment.
She attributes to her mentors and colleagues to support her growth. “I have excellent mentors and people I can rely on if I need help,” she said. “This is something I didn’t know that I had until I got to NASA.”
Ramji thinks that getting out of your comfort zone is essential. “Disfort brings new learning, understanding and opportunities, so I sometimes like to be uncomfortable,” she said. “I am open and receptive to comments. Constructive criticism helped me grow and evolve – and better understand the mission of NASA. ”
For her, balance means creating an intentional space for reflection, growth and significant connection.
Before joining NASA, Ramji had already built an international career rooted in the service. She worked at the Aga Khan Foundation in Canada, a non-profit organization focused on the next generation of the challenges of communities underdeveloped by education and health care.
She directed visitors, workshops and more than 250 events – often for diplomats and world leaders – to promote “quiet diplomacy” and dialogue.
“The transparency, quality, equity and diversity of perspective are all important to me,” she said. “People come from different experiences that widen our understanding.”
Ramji then moved to East Africa as the only representative of the Foundation communications through Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. There, she trained more than 300 employees and built a communication strategy to help local teams share impact stories – both success and challenges – with honesty and empathy.
Her work has left a lasting brand on the communities she served and highlighted the power of communication to stimulate a positive change.
In 2013, Ramji moved to the United States and started, rebuilding his network and his career. She worked for the Aga Khan council for the United States in Houston, leading a volunteer recruitment program that connected thousands of people with roles adapted to their skills.
Later, she applied for an entrepreneurial position – not to know that it was with NASA. “I never thought that my skills or expertise would be appreciated in a place like NASA,” she said. But in 2018, she accepted a role of specialist in public relations supporting the awareness of the international space station. Since then, she has shaped the narration of the agency.
Ramji’s journey represents NASA’s commitment to push the limits and to expand knowledge of humanity in the universe. With collaboration, transparency and vision, it helps to give life to the next border of spatial exploration.
