The Patti Grace Smith Fellowship is a non-profit program in the United States that provides a paid internship, scholarship, and executive mentorship to exceptional Black undergraduate students seeking a career in aerospace.

[1][2] The fellowship is named after Patricia Grace Smith, a United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official whose regulatory work helped lay the foundations for commercial spaceflight.

[5] [6] This program's mission is directly inspired by Smith, who at age 16 served as a plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case that integrated public schools in Alabama.

The program offers students their first paid summer internship at top space companies (including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, etc.

),[10] travel stipends, and mentorship from notable Black aerospace leaders, including former NASA administrators (e.g. Charles Bolden, astronauts (e.g. Robert Curbeam, academics (e.g. Daniel E. Hastings, and company executives.