Danica Vallone is founder of Red Hen Industries, a design and fabrication firm specializing in film, commercial, and large-scale installations.
Using these skills, Ms. Vallone parlayed into medtech and aerospace, with a client and collaborator list that includes Axiom, Sierra, Vast, and Paragon.
Danica serves as Creative Director for Global Effects, the largest, legacy provider of space-related costumes, props, and set pieces in the film industry.
She is a member of the XPRIZE Brain Trust, collaborating in the domains of Space and Education, and serves as Designer in Residence at UCSD’s Design Lab, with a focus on Bionics and Human Resilience.
Danica is on the founding board of OSMED – the Organization for Space Medicine, Engineering, and Design, built to advance human space exploration across disciplines and company lines.
Ms Vallone is also Director of Development for the Haughton-Mars Project, the leading planetary analog field research project on Devon Island, High Arctic, supported by NASA, academic and industry partners, and this past year by the NSS. She spent this last summer with Dr. Pascal Lee in the Arctic testing new technologies for Universal Basic Healthcare in extreme and remote environments. A TEDx talk on the project is currently in development.
She will proudly spend the remainder of her career advocating for the importance of humans in space; past, present, and future.