# 2023 CoCo Election: Clara Brasseur

**URL:** <https://community.openastronomy.org/t/2023-coco-election-clara-brasseur/733>\
**Category:** Astropy\
**Tags:** coco-election\
**Created:** [September 5, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.openastronomy.org/t/2023-coco-election-clara-brasseur/733 "2023-09-05T17:02:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.openastronomy.org/t/2023-coco-election-clara-brasseur/733/1 "2023-09-05T17:02:58Z")

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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 when I can and coordination meetings always, coordinating the Astropy Roadmap committee thrice. 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.