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...became the first Asian-American elected to the Cambridge City Council in November last year and is concurrently pursuing a double degree at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. And before that, Cheung was a “rocket scientist” (that was actually his title) at Space Adventures, a Virginia-based company that sends private citizens into space...
...running local politics is quite different from studying outer space—a career shift that Cheung said was driven by his sense that the privatization of space travel was occurring too slowly. He began to get more involved with the community, volunteering at local church and neighbourhood organizations...
...Cheung cites physicist Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, as one of his biggest inspirations and likes to say that humans, like dinosaurs, could go extinct—a disaster that space exploration could somehow ameliorate...
...Cheung left the company—for which he had been promoted to Chief Information Officer—and moved to Boston, where he got involved with organizations like Big Brother Big Sister...
...Cheung also has another accomplishment under his belt: he has been on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In a segment that aired on Aug. 12, 2009, Cheung appeared alongside several other MIT and Harvard grad students to discuss an ethics oath for MBA students. Check it out here...