Ginger Kerrick is an American physicist at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

[1][2] She started her college degree at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she walked onto their women's basketball team.

[7] She became the first non-astronaut Capsule Communicator (Capcom),[5] first Russian-training-integration instructor,[6] and the first Hispanic female NASA flight director in 2005.

[10][11] There, she created plans for scenarios of astronauts in space which assisted ISS and shuttle operations, making her a dual-certified flight director.

In November 2021 Kerrick decided to quit her engagement at NASA and moved to Barrios Technology, LTD in Houston, Texas where she took over the role as Chief Strategy Officer.