Lady Diana Trujillo Pomerantz (born 1983)[1] is a Colombian-American[2] aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

[6] Uncertain but determined to overcome the economic difficulties that her family faced in Colombia, Trujillo moved to the United States at the age of seventeen with only $300.

[10] In order to improve her language skills, she started English lessons at Miami Dade College while working as a housekeeper, among other jobs.

[7] During her work at the Academy, she met NASA robots expert Brian Roberts, who convinced her to move to Maryland with the aim of increasing her chances in the Aerospace industry.

[12] Trujillo attended the University of Maryland where she was part of Roberts' research team, focusing on robots in space operations.

[28] Trujillo worked as flight director[29] on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover robotic arm[30] and in February 2021, she hosted NASA's first Spanish-language planetary landing show.

[32][33][34][35][36][37][38] She took part in a discussion about Hidden Figures at the University of Southern California alongside Octavia Spencer and Pharrell Williams.