Space prize judge

Britt Duffy Adkins

Britt is the first space urban planner and founder of Celestial Citizen. She is passionate about the intersection of urban planning, engineering, science, and social justice as humans look to build new societies in space. Britt also hosts the Celestial Citizen Podcast where she looks to spark unique conversations about the human factors that will be essential to our long-term survival and evolution into a spacefaring civilization.

She is currently enrolled at the University of Southern California’s Price School of Public Policy pursuing a Master of Urban Planning, and a recent graduate from the Colorado School of Mines, where she received a Master of Science in Space Resources. She also graduated from the MIT-Wellesley Double Degree program where she received the S.B. in Urban Studies & Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Wellesley College in Architecture. Prior to Celestial Citizen, Britt worked in asset management and real estate development before focusing full-time on her desire to help plan the first cities on the Moon and Mars. She currently lives in Pasadena, CA with her husband and brood of three future Martians.