Brooke Lynn Felts

Brooke Lynn Felts is the director and co-principle investigator of GEO-ESCON, where she is responsible for overseeing operations, managing relationships between federal and academic partners, and developing the consortium. She works with the executive director to develop and execute the strategic vision for GEO-ESCON in line with the needs of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Office of Geomatics (NGA).

Felts has developed a robust skillset focused in consortium leadership and management, establishing workforce development programs and pre- and post-award grants and contract management. She has an interest in team formation and grant writing, having supported several multi-institution research proposals.

Prior to joining GEO-ESCON, Felts was most recently the assistant director of the Minority Leaders Research Collaboration Program, a six-year, $40 million effort with nearly 40 participating institutions. The Minority Leaders Research Collaboration Program is a partnership between The Ohio State University and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Before her Minority Leaders Research Collaboration role, she was the center manager of the Ohio State-led Manufacturing and Materials Joining Innovation Center, a National Science Foundation-funded Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (NSF IUCRC). She managed and established new relationships between industry partners and the six participating universities — earning the center the title of largest IUCRC in the nation by industry support.