Daniella Scalice’s work can be characterized, in a word, as revolutionary. She has gone places and focused on serving learners that others rarely do. She has faced difficult truths and transmuted discomfort into strength. Since 2005, Daniella has approached her work with Indigenous communities with authenticity and grace. As Indigenous Knowledges were shared with her, she recognized that the cutting-edge research of astrobiology and the origin stories it contained could synergize beautifully with Indigenous cosmological narratives. Thus, she and her partners wove them together into educational experiences for Indigenous youth, using methods that compromise the integrity of neither and cocultivate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and cultural identities. Her way of working has flipped the script from a deficit model tale of bringing STEM education to the underserved to an empowerment model approach of humility, respect, and cocreativity. In the cumulative total of over 80 years of partnerships across 14 tribal communities, the programs have directly involved and impacted countless youth, parents, educators, knowledge holders, and elders. In 2017, Daniella started a first-of-its-kind program at NASA called Astrobiology for the Incarcerated that brought hands-on STEM programs to incarcerated adults and youth across the United States. Daniella decoded messages and teachings deeply embedded in our origin story—themes of interconnectivity, relationality, adaptability, and the innovative potential of life, especially in the harshest of environmental conditions, occur repeatedly in the story of life’s origin and evolution—and she built the programming from them. Daniella helped ensure eclipse glasses got to incarcerated learners across the United States in 2023–2024, and she hopes to continue to pursue her vision for this work as a constellation of relationships between correctional facilities and NASA teams near them. Daniella’s work has influenced how NASA expects the scientific community to conceive of their fieldwork. She led the development of novel requirements that outline expectations for higher standards of ethics in fieldwork—the first of their kind in NASA—especially for how a research proposal demonstrates relationship and plans to work with Indigenous communities. In this work, there is no authentic relationship that can be built, no historically fractured trust that can be healed, no collaborative vision that can be shared without putting one’s heart on the line. Daniella does this every day. And the love, care, and friendship she receives back fuel her commitment to the work of making slow, measured changes, often one person at a time, that inch us toward a healthier, stronger, interconnected society. —Sheri Klug Boonstra, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona