Speakers

  • Rick Borchelt

    Position/Organization: director of Communications Research, Education, and Economics, US Department of Agriculture

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  • Danielle Brigida

    Position/Organization: digital marketing manager, National Wildlife Federation

    Danielle Brigida actively engages a wide range of constituents of the National Wildlife Federation, using a mixture of online tools and social networking sites. An early adopter of social media with creative, engaging campaigns, Danielle has been recognized as: 10 Green Women We Love by Greenopia; one of the 75 Environmentalists to follow by Mashable; Top 50 green people to follow on Twitter by Greenopolis; A featured Changemaker by Change.org; A Measurement Maven of the Month by Katie Paine.

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  • Steve Buttry

    Steve Buttry is Director of Community Engagement for TBD, an online news operation that launched in August, covering community news in the Washington metro area. He has been an editor, reporter, writing coach, blogger and innovation coach for seven community and metro newspapers, most recently Editor of The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Steve was named Editor of the Year in February 2010 by Editor & Publisher magazine. He spent three years doing research, teaching and writing for the American Press Institute.

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  • Sean B. Carroll

    Canceled due to illness in the family.

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  • Ralph J. Cicerone

    Position/Organization: president, National Academy of Sciences; chair, National Research Council

    Ralph J. Cicerone, Ph.D., is president of the National Academy of Sciences and chair of the National Research Council. His studies of atmospheric energy dynamics, climate change, and ozone depletion have long put him at the intersection of science and government policy. He has directed atmospheric chemistry studies at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, is a former president of the American Geophysical Union, and was chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, from 1998 to 2005.

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  • Mark Coatney

    Position/Organization: Tumblr

    Mark Coatney is the director/media evangelist for Tumblr; he Tumbls at http://markcoatney.com. Previously, he was an editor with primary responsibility for social media for Newsweek, where, in addition to conventional assigning/editing, he developed the Newsweek Tumblr, as well as its Twitter,Facebook and other audience engagement platforms. He began his career as one of the first writers for Time magazine's Website, Time.com, after receiving an MA in Political Science from the University of Kansas.

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  • Roger Cohn

    Position/Organization: editor, Yale Environment360

    Roger Cohn is the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines and currently the editor of Yale Environment 360, which is published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Yale University. The online publication features long-form work by prominent journalists with funding in part by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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  • Steve Cole

    Position/Organization: public affairs specialist, NASA

    Steve Cole is the public affairs officer for the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. He has worked in science journalism since 1985 as managing editor of Astronomy Magazine, Environmental Science & Technology (American Chemical Society), and Eos (American Geophysical Union) and as a freelance writer with articles appearing in The Washington Post, Scientific American, and New Scientist. He holds a Master's degree in science writing from Johns Hopkins University.

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  • KC Cole

    Position/Organization: professor, Annenberg School of Journalism, University of Southern California

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  • Amber Dance

    Position/Organization: freelance writer, www.amberldance.com

    Amber Dance is a freelance science writer based in Pasadena, California. She works half-time for the Alzheimer Research Forum (www.alzforum.org), writing about research on Lou Gehrig's disease. She contributes a bimonthly column, 'In the Works,' to the Los Angeles Times Health section. In addition, she writes about stem cell biology for StemBook.org and also contributes to The Scientist and Nature. Dance earned a PhD in cell biology and microbiology at UC San Diego before attending the UC Santa Cruz science writing program and launching her journalism career.

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