Jan Millsapps

Who is Jan Millsapps?

Jan Millsapps, Ph.D. is a pioneering digital filmmaker, an early web innovator, fiction writer and Professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. She has produced films, videos and interactive cinema on subjects ranging from domestic violence to global terrorism, and has published in traditional print and online venues.

Late in 2013 she was named to the select group of 1058 Mars One astronaut candidates who are embarking upon two years of rigorous testing to determine which ones will be among the first humans to colonize Mars, beginning in 2025.