Apoorva T. Karra is pursuing a doctoral degree in aerospace engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. As a Brumley Next Generation Graduate Fellow, Karra addressed critical challenges in spectrum governance at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Her work identified regulatory gaps in International Telecommunication Union policies and proposed an innovative methodology to assess spectral compliance among geostationary orbit operators. She also interned with the Texas Space Commission, focusing on strategic gap analyses for the space economy. Karra’s professional interests center on space sustainability and policy, with a focus on harmful interference and satellite compliance in the geostationary orbital regime. As a Graduate Archer Fellow, Karra plans to explore federal policy implementation firsthand and develop strategies to translate her dissertation findings into a credit-based compliance framework.