Ginger Kerrick

Ginger Kerrick is Chief Strategy Officer for Barrios Technology, a small woman-owned human spaceflight company in Houston, Texas.  

Prior to joining the Barrios executive team, Ginger served in multiple senior leadership roles at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) before retiring in 2021 including Deputy Director of the Exploration Integration and Science Directorate and JSC Assistant Center Director for Vision and Strategy. She spent the majority of her 30-year NASA career supporting JSC’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) in leadership roles, including Assistant Director for International Space Station (ISS), Flight Integration Division Chief, and Flight Director (the first female Hispanic Flight Director). Early in her career she was NASA’s first Russian Training Integration Instructor as well as being selected as the first non-astronaut Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM).

Ginger received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1991 and a Master of Science in physics in 1993 from Texas Tech University. She was inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame in 2016 by Governor Abbott. In 2019, she was appointed by Governor Abbott to the Board of Regents of the Texas Tech University System. She served as the Vice Chair of the board and Chairwoman of the Academic, Clinical and Student Affairs Committee.

Ginger was born in El Paso, Texas. Ginger and her husband, Sam Davis, were married in March 2021. In her personal time, Ginger is an avid runner, decorates cakes, and supports several Houston area dog rescues. Ginger was profiled in the Universal Pictures documentary The Wonderful: Stories from the International Space Station (2021) and in the books A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space (2017) and Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of NASA’s Johnson Space Center (2021). She also plays a role in the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (2017) and in the short film Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10 (2019) with Ron Howard and Jeff Goldblum.