Denise Hill

Denise Hill is the strategy and operations lead for NASA’s Heliophysics Division (HPD). She is instrumental in helping manage HPD’s multi-million-dollar flight portfolio dedicated to studying the sun and its profound impact on Earth, the solar system and the space environment. Before this role, Hill was HPD’s communications, outreach, and media relations lead. Her prior experience includes leading communications for the Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy campaign and the Health Equity Task Force, as well as serving as a senior speechwriter and policy editor at the Department of Transportation, where she led communications for the Research and Technology Office. Hill began her career as an educator and curriculum developer, where she specialized and conducted extensive research in the areas of child psychology, brain research and gifted and talented education.