Dr. Carol Raymond is Manager of JPL’s Small Bodies Program. Dr Raymond started out studying started out studying geology and geophysics and joined JPL in 1990. She has served as Deputy Principal Investigator (PI) on the NASA Dawn Discovery Mission to Vesta and Ceres, two protoplanets in the Main Asteroid Belt, and as Dawn's PI for the second extended mission. In this interview, she tells us how her key piece of advice has been to stay flexible in following the path of your interest, and shares the positive experience of how collaborative teamwork can make great things can happen.

Presented by Rutu Parekh, DLR. A Lightcurve Films production for EPEC Diversity Working Group.

Acknowledgements: Europlanet Society, Europlanet Diversity Committee, EPEC Committee.