Katie Smither is an Opto-mechanical Technician who helps to maintain large telescope mirrors, instrument optics, and laser beams that are used to help humans look farther into the cosmos from Earth. She's currently working just south of the Atacama Desert in Chile for an organization that manages telescopes all over the world, particularly Arizona, Hawai'i, and Chile, and at times, has the opportunity to travel between the telescope sites.

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Age: 33

Fun Fact: Katie was an art major!

For the Winter 2022-2023 issue, Katie recommended The Complete Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino, Mariner Books (paperback), 2015, (Original publication 1965), 432 pages.

For the Autumn 2022 issue, Katie recommended Hawaiki Rising: Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance, Sam Low, University of Hawai'i Press, 2019, 344 pages.