Zaida Hernandez

Zaida Hernandez is a Latina space engineer, first-generation Salvadoran American, and STEM advocate. Growing up, she always had a fascination with space--stars, planets, and the unknown! When she is not spending time with family, she loves participating in outreach events locally and worldwide, spreading her love for space. In her second collaboration with Lil' Libros, after publishing My First Space Words in English and Spanish, she hopes to inspire future bilingual scientists, engineers, and space explorers. Currently, Zaida is working as an engineer at NASA.

Karla Monterrosa was born and raised in sunny San Salvador, El Salvador. She's an illustrator and animator on a mission to draw a world in which it's okay to feel awkward. Karla graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a BFA in Animation in 2013 and currently lives in the unceded, ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations, also known as Vancouver, British Columbia.