# 2022 CoCo Election: Clara Brasseur

**URL:** <https://community.openastronomy.org/t/2022-coco-election-clara-brasseur/459>\
**Category:** Astropy\
**Tags:** astropy, coco-election\
**Created:** [September 20, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.openastronomy.org/t/2022-coco-election-clara-brasseur/459 "2022-09-20T16:09:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.openastronomy.org/t/2022-coco-election-clara-brasseur/459/1 "2022-09-20T16:09:15Z")

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I am honoured to be nominated for the Coordination Committee.

My involvement with Astropy started with writing the MAST module in Astroquery, and grew from there. I am now one of the three Astroquery maintainers and an active member of the Astropy community. I participate in Astropy telecons and coordination meetings, coordinating the Astropy Roadmap committee twice. I am a former software engineer and current PhD student, and as such I am committed to increasing awareness of and support for graduate students engaging with open source communities.

As a current PhD student I will bring to the committee direct experience with the earliest career researchers.