Parker Wishik

Parker is a senior strategist for commercial, civil, and international space at The Aerospace Corporation and lead communicator for the COSMIC consortium. He supports initiatives and partnerships that deliver impactful thought leadership, content, and engagement to bring the value of space to the broadest community possible. He was previously a vice president at H+K, where he led an aerospace and cutting-edge technology portfolio. In 2016 he was embedded with the Virginia Department of Emergency Management for emergency response efforts following Hurricane Matthew. A natural storyteller and former journalist, he once published a byline in The New York Times. Parker earned a master’s in political communication from American University and a bachelor’s in mass communication from LSU.