Speakers

  • Mariette DiChristina

    Position/Organization: editor in chief, Scientific American

    Mariette DiChristina oversees Scientific American, ScientificAmerican.com, Scientific American MIND and all newsstand special editions. A science journalist for more than 20 years, she first came to Scientific American in 2001 as its executive editor. She is also the president (in 2009 and 2010) of the 2,500-member National Association of Science Writers. DiChristina is a frequent lecturer and has appeared at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Yale University and New York University among many others.

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  • David Dobbs

    Position/Organization: independent author, blogger, and contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, & others

    David Dobbs writes for publications including the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Wired, and Scientific American. Several of his stories have been chosen for leading science anthologies, including a December 2009 feature from the Atlantic, 'The Orchid Children,' which will appear in Ecco/HarperPerennial's Best American Science Writing 2010. He recently moved to London to spend a year researching a book expanding on that article and serving as a senior visiting fellow at City University London’s Science Journalism MA program.

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  • Jeanne Erdmann

    Position/Organization: freelance

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  • Bob Finn

    Position/Organization: San Francisco Bureau chief, International Medical News Group

    Bob Finn began his career as a neuroscientist, but after several years of working on hippocampal slice physiology he discovered he didn't care for the day-to-day drudgery of the laboratory, and decided to pursue a career as a science writer.

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  • Jean-Marc Fleury

    Position/Organization: executive director, World Federation of Science Journalists

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  • Lynne Friedmann

    Position/Organization: freelance

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  • Carolyn L. Funk

    Position/Organization: associate professor and director of the Commonwealth Poll, Virginia Commonwealth University

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  • Andrew Gelman

    Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. He has received the Outstanding Statistical Application award from the American Statistical Association, the award for best article published in the American Political Science Review, and the Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies award for outstanding contributions by a person under the age of 40.

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  • Peggy Girshman

    Position/Organization: executive editor for Online, Kaiser Health News; former managing editor, National Public Radio

    Peggy Girshman is the executive editor for online at Kaiser Health News, a new nonprofit news service covering health care and health policy. Girshman is a prize-winning science and health journalist who has had a distinguished career in commercial and public television and radio. She is a former managing editor at National Public Radio, executive editor at Congressional Quarterly, and also worked as a producer for Dateline NBC and several PBS series. She was responsible for converging radio and digital parts of NPR News and has been part of four earlier start-up news operations.

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  • Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

    Position/Organization: director of Programming and Business Development, Digital Book World

    Guy LeCharles Gonzalez is the Director of Programming and Business Development for Digital Book World. Guy LeCharles Gonzalez is a published poet and writer, and active blogger since 2003. An old and new media pragmatist, social media realist, and marketing strategist, he views publishing as a community service, and is optimistic about its future. @glecharles

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