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Sheyene Gerardi

Sheyene Gerardi (born April 13) is a Venezuelan actress, producer and businessperson. She is also a mining executive, co-founder NASA´s Planetary Landing Team. Gerardi has worked with the Next Generation Committee of the Robotics Society of Japan. In 2018, Sheyene was named as the Lead for Robotics Outreach at NASA’s Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS), the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) and The Florida Space Institute (FSI) network. While working at NASA, she co-founded the NASA´s Planetary Landing Team. It is a part of the Center for Lunar & Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS) at University of Central Florida (UCF). [1][2] During her time at NASA, she also founded the Sheyene Institute. It is, a company that works on technologies for use on the Moon, Mars and asteroids. These are known as “space resources” to support NASA missions. She leads two philanthropic organizations through the Sheyene Gerardi Foundation.[3] They are The Sheyene School and Sheyene e-health. The main goal of the Sheyene School is to increase peoples understanding of technology. Sheyene e-health is a system to spread information about rare diseases. It was created after she became a survivor of an unclassifiable splenic small B-Cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare cancer.[4][5][6][7] Sheyene is member to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and the committee on professional ethics, rights, and freedoms. [8]

Sheyene Gerardi
Born
Sheyene Gerardi

Caracas, Venezuela
NationalityVenezuelan and Italian
OccupationFormer actress, producer, business person
Years active1998–present
EmployerNASA Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS)
Known forRobotics Outreach Lead (2018-Present), co-founder NASA´s Planetary Landing Team.
Net worth$1.2 billion
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Board member ofInternational Political Science Association, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Robotics Society of Japan
Partner(s)Single
ChildrenNone
FamilyBoth parents killed in a car Accident. No living relatives
AwardsEmmy, Imagen Awards
Websitesheyenegerardi.net

She is working with governments introducing robotics education into low-resource communities .[1]

Entertainment career

Entertainment

Sheyene is known for her work in more than 30 countries, including Russia, Germany, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. Given her influence on the culture, a non-profit charity foundation in Barlovento, Venezuela — the Sheyene School — is named after her.[9][10]

Gerardi has won the Emmy Award, the 2 de Oro award, She has received the key of the city in Barlovento, the Meridiano award and the Imagen Awards.[11][12][13] The actress has also credits in roles as a TV host. In 2016, Gerardi was named a Mogul Influencer in New York City.

Later Career

Sheyene is the founder of the Sheyene Gerardi Network (SGN), a entertainment ecosystem for social change, dedicated to foster awareness related to the space revolution.

Sheyene began hosting a TV Show documentary entitled To the Moon and Back with Sheyene Gerardi, in 2020[14][15] distributed through cable television.[16] Sheyene is also executive producing this series.[17]

Business Career

Sheyene Gerardi, is working with NASA Kennedy Space Center and the Florida Space Institute (FSI) to teach Planetary engineering and creating Robotics competitions for low-income children.[18][19][20] Her role infusing scientific progress into robotics outreach includes to develop a series of robotics competitions for universities and to develop robotics for constructing landing pads on the Moon. She is currently working along with governments and international organizations to introduce robotics education into low-resource communities or conflict areas, such as rural schools, refugee camps, non-formal school systems and prison systems in concert with entertainment productions for social change to educate the public and guide them to take action.The program is serving prison systems providing assistance with education to people who has been wrongfully convicted.[21][22][23]

Sheyene Technology

Another one of her businesses include a robotics product line for commercial use and various projects and activities within NASA, including the International Space Station, robotic missions and international Space launch.[15]

Sheyene's company builds its own robots for mining operations. The firm has sold it´s portfolio of products and services to various organizations, including government agencies in the USA; it also has product research and development operations jointly in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) and for deployment on in situ planetary and lunar missions.[24][25][26]

Sheyene Institute

After becoming involved with NASA Sheyene founded the Sheyene Institute, a company that works on technologies to mining resources on the Moon, Mars and asteroids, to support NASA missions.

Personal life

Sheyene`s family has owned and operated a mining company, since 1954.[27][28] Gerardi acquired her wealth after her mother and father were killed in an automobile accident, leaving Sheyene with no living relatives.

She serves as a CEO and took over the company after her parents passed away, one of her first major actions following the death of her parents was to implement automated mining.

Sheyene’s lands are in the Orinoco Mining Arc, in the same area of the Cristinas and the Brisas mine, which, according to a business valuation, the property may be worth more than $1 billion.[29][30][31][32] According to the minister of the Popular Power for Ecological Mining Development, the Orinoco Mining Arc has tons of reserves of gold, copper, diamond, coltan, iron, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, thorium and other minerals and it has a potential of about 2 trillion dollars, which would make it the second biggest gold reserve in the world.[33][34]

On April 2020, Sheyene enrolled in the University of Naples Federico II to acquire a degree in Political science. Gerardi is member of the American Society of International Law and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Sheyene has been a featured speaker at several international business and technology forums, including the World Economic Forum, the World Government Summit and the Nobel Prize Summit.

Significant events

In 2006, her mother and father were killed in an automobile accident, leaving Sheyene with no living relatives. A year later, she received a diagnosis of advanced lymphoma stage IV, a very rare type of cancer with only 60 cases reported worldwide with no survivors. The cancer was spread throughout 85% of her body and doctors gave her three months to live. Sheyene underwent three years of chemotherapy treatments in Florida, she suffered no hair loss.[35][36][37] During her chemotherapy treatments, Gerardi worked in two films in Mexico.[38][39]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sheyene Gerardi Infusing Scientific Progress into Robotics Outreach". Archived from the original on 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  2. ↑ "Sheyene Gerardi NASA CLASS Robotics Outreach Lead : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. 2018.
  3. ↑ "Informational Message". appext20.dos.ny.gov.
  4. ↑ Behdad, Amir; Bailey, Nathanael G. (2014). "Diagnosis of Splenic B-Cell Lymphomas in the Bone Marrow: A Review of Histopathologic, Immunophenotypic, and Genetic Findings". Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 138 (10): 1295–1301. doi:10.5858/arpa.2014-0291-cc. PMID 25268192.
  5. ↑ Sainati, L.; Matutes, E.; Mulligan, S.; Oliveira, MP de; Rani, S.; Lampert, I. A.; Catovsky, D. (1 July 1990). "A variant form of hairy cell leukemia resistant to alpha-interferon: clinical and phenotypic characteristics of 17 patients". Blood. 76 (1): 157–162. doi:10.1182/blood.v76.1.157.157. PMID 2364167 – via bloodjournal.org.
  6. ↑ "Sheyene Gerardi, una actriz al servicio del arte y la tecnología". Archived from the original on 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  7. ↑ "Sheyene Gerardi - A Plus".
  8. ↑ International, WILPF. "Home". WILPF. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  9. ↑ "SHEYENE GERARDI - SCHOOL". www.sheyenegerardi.net. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  10. ↑ Rivera, Zayda (19 April 2017). "This International Celebrity Survived A Deadly Cancer, And Along The Way Discovered Her New Purpose In Life". A Plus.
  11. ↑ "Sheyene Gerardi". IMDb.
  12. ↑ "SHEYENE GERARDI una actriz al servicio del arte y la tecnología". 17 April 2016.
  13. ↑ "Sheyene Gerardi ingresa como influenciadora a la comunidad Mogul para apoyar el desarrollo de la mujer - Venevision". venevision.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-22. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  14. ↑ "To The Moon and Back with Sheyene Gerardi 2020". IMDb.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Watch To the Moon and Back with Sheyene Gerardi - Ethics of ai | Prime Video". Amazon. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  16. ↑ "Sheyene Gerardi". IMDb.
  17. ↑ "To the moon and back with Sheyene Gerardi". IMDb.
  18. ↑ "Space Education Outreach with Sheyene Gerardi". Archived from the original on 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  19. ↑ "Sheyene Gerardi NASA FSl UCF Robotics Competitions : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive.
  20. ↑ "Jóvenes latinoamericanos de escasos recursos podrán competir en la NASA". Globovisión.
  21. ↑ "NASA CLASS Announces Collaboration With Actress Sheyene Gerardi | Aero-News Network". aero-news.net.
  22. ↑ [1] Archived April 6, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
  23. ↑ Globovision (2018-02-10). "e-planning". Globovisión (in español). Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  24. ↑ Sheyene Technology Velodyne LiDar USA 2023.pdf
  25. ↑ Award Letter - Sheyene Technology Inc.pdf
  26. ↑ Sheyene Technology Bescom.pdf
  27. ↑ Environmental, Natural Resources. "Orinoco's Mining Arc: An environmental crime with global effects - Luis Palacios". law.lclark.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  28. ↑ Rivero, Doris; Liu, Ying (February 2020). "Venezuela's Orinoco Mining Arc: A literature review of Environmental Impacts" (PDF). International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications. 10 (2): 54–69. doi:10.29322/IJSRP.10.02.2020.p9812. S2CID 211199270.
  29. ↑ "GMS value". pdfslide.net.
  30. ↑ Rachel Boothroyd Rojas (February 26, 2016). "Venezuela and Canadian Company Sign $5 Billion Gold Mining Deal". nsnbc international. http://nsnbc.me/2016/02/26/venezuela-and-canadian-company-sign-5-billion-gold-mining-deal/. Retrieved April 9, 2016. "...Venezuela is also estimated to possess the planet’s second greatest gold reserves...". 
  31. ↑ Ellis, Trevor R. (April 17, 2006). "Appraisal of Market Value Las Brisas Gold Mining Concessions Bolivar State, Venezuela" (PDF). minevaluation.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-25. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  32. ↑ "Who Owns Las Cristinas Gold?". banderasnews.com. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  33. ↑ "Tasan en $2 trillones potencial del... - Economía | EL UNIVERSAL". 2017-11-14. Archived from the original on 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  34. ↑ "Comenzó etapa de exploración en el Arco Minero del Orinoco | Últimas Noticias". 2017-10-28. Archived from the original on 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  35. ↑ "Charytin entrevista a Sheyene Gerardi, nos habla de sus nuevos proyectos. • mega.tv". 12 September 2013.
  36. ↑ MegaTV (23 August 2013). "Charytin entrevista a Sheyene Gerardi, nos de sus nuevos proyectos" – via YouTube.
  37. ↑ Español, Por CNN en; CNN (6 September 2011). "Sheyene Gerardi habla con Cala sobre su batalla contra el cáncer". {{cite web}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  38. ↑ "Beverly Hills Entertainment - Religious". brandariz.com.
  39. ↑ "Beverly Hills Entertainment - Religious". brandariz.com.

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