• Patti Grace Smith Fellow, Class of 2024

• University of Michigan, Computer Science, ‘26

• Host Institution: Astrolab

Bailey Norwood is a second year student attending the University of Michigan pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Engineering for Computer Science Engineering. She has hopes of creating and implementing cybersecurity solutions in the aerospace industry. Turning her interests from automotive cybersecurity to aerospace cybersecurity, she is passionate and confident in contributing to more secure digital space. Her career passions are cybersecurity, cyber defense, robotics, cloud security, and aeronautics.

At the University of Michigan, she is an active member and e-board member of the student organization Black Students in Aerospace (BSA) with her role as Co-Events Coordinator. In this role, she plans and organizes events such as corporate, social, professional, and academic for the general body members and many other students at the university. Her main objective in her role is to promote more opportunities and engagement with black students that are interested or have a passion for aerospace.

Bailey constantly involves herself in organizations and events that will create a more equitable, diverse, and accessible opportunities for many marginalized communities. The ways she involves herself is through outreach events to high schools with the Society of Women in Engineering (SWE) and as a Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) mentor with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). She wants to continue to break barriers for others of such communities.