Speakers

  • Wes Pope

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    Lecturer,Photojournalism & Documentary Studies, Northern Arizona University

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  • Lance B. Price, Ph.D.

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    Director, The Translational Genomics Research Institute and Center for Food Microbiology and Environmental Health, Flagstaff

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  • Czerne Reid

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    Science Writer, University of Florida

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  • Joann Rodgers

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    Faculty Scholar and Senior Communications Adviser, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

    Joann Ellison Rodgers, an award-winning science journalist, magazine writer, book author and editor, directed Johns Hopkins Medicine's science communications, media relations and public affairs division for 25 years, and currently is a faculty scholar and strategic communications adviser to the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She joined Johns Hopkins after nearly two decades as an award-winning reporter and columnist for the Hearst Newspapers and magazines. Her awards include a Lasker Award for medical journalism.

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  • Hillary Rosner

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    Freelance journalist

    Hillary Rosner is a freelance journalist whose stories on science and the environment have appeared in The New York Times, Popular Science, Mother Jones, Audubon, OnEarth, Men's Journal, High Country News, Town & Country, New York, Slate, and many other print and online publications. She was a 2010-2011 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and the winner of a 2011 AAAS Kavli science journalism award. She holds an MS in environmental studies from the University of Colorado, where she studied climate change on a National Science Foundation fellowship.

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  • Cristine Russell

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    President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing

    Cristine Russell is an award-winning journalist who has written about science, health, and the environment for more than three decades. She is a senior fellow in the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. A former Washington Post reporter, Russell is currently a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review (cjr.org) and a correspondent for The Atlantic online (TheAtlantic.com).

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  • Dennis Schatz

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    Senior Vice President for Strategic Programs, Pacific Science Center; Program Director, National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings

    Dennis Schatz is Senior Vice President for Strategic Programs at Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington, and currently on temporary assignment as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. At the Science Center, he provided leadership to several of the Science Center's major initiatives. He co-directed Washington State LASER (Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform), a program to implement a quality K-12 science program in all 295 school districts in Washington State.

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  • Mark Schrope

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    Freelance journalist

    Mark Schrope is a freelance writer and editor based in Florida who covers a broad range of subjects under the headings of science, medicine, technology, travel and adventure. His work has taken him into biomedical laboratories throughout the U.S.; on a flight into the eye of a hurricane; to the seafloor 1,700 feet deep by submersible; and around the world – from a remote Colombian island to the coral reefs of Indonesia and Fiji. He is currently writing a book about the Gulf oil spill called The Blowout Experiment.

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  • Nancy Shute

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    Freelance writer and editor; President, National Association of Science Writers

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  • Steve Silberman

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    Contributing Editor, Wired

    "Steve Silberman is a contributing editor for Wired magazine, writer for many national magazines, and “Neurotribes” blogger for the Public Library of Science. In 2010, he won a Science Journalism of the Year Award from the Kavli Foundation/AAAS, and Time chose him as one of its selected science writers on Twitter, calling him "the Kevin Bacon of science journalism."

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