Dr. Anna Brady-Estevez is the Founding Partner of American DeepTech, a deep technology investment firm. She also serves as a co-host of the NASA Ecosystemic Futures podcast which regularly covers advanced technologies, including in-depth coverage of UAP. Dr. Brady-Estevez previously served as the Senior Investment Advisor and Partner (Venture) for the Small Business Administration's SBIC program (a program investing over $5B annually in venture and private equity). She also served as a Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), where she led the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) portfolio focused on Space Tech, Energy, Chemical, Environmental, and Distributed Ledger (Blockchain, DAGs) technologies. During her tenure, Anna invested and managed over $250M in grants to early-stage, high-impact startups. Deep technology companies that Anna has previously recommended and/or managed for funding, investment & grants have achieved over $8.5B in follow-on financing and $17B+ in total company valuation. Such companies include: Ascend Elements, Epirus, Design Therapeutics, Stoke Space Technologies, Fluence, Syzygy Plasmonics, Baseload Renewables (pre-Form Energy), Swarm, Air Company, Meati, Provivi, Nth Cycle, Iontra, Xona, Interlune, Kaleido, Loci, Li Industries, Urban Sky, Astroforge, Avalanche Energy, Ambercycle, Molten Industries, Noon Energy and others. While at NSF Anna also recommended funding for a number of companies who have shared their publicly visible work on UAP related and adjacent technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale University, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and President of the Student Government representing the 14 graduate and professional schools, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from the Johns Hopkins University where she was a varsity athlete, captain and record holder.