By Alexis Gambis

On Jan. 28, TalkingScience presented a panel on "Science 2.0: Science Outreach Options in an Online World." The discussion focused on methods of reaching new audiences for science via both new and old tools, as well as how to develop a career in science outreach.

Panel Moderator: Ann Marie Cunningham

Ann Marie Cunningham is executive director of TalkingScience, the nonprofit partner of Science Friday, the weekly live news/talk program on science and science policy broadcast on NPR. TalkingScience’s mission is to attract new audiences, especially young people, to science via their medium of choice, the Internet. Ms. Cunningham is a veteran science journalist with experience in print, broadcasting, and the Web. She is co-author of the bestselling Ryan White: My Own Story, and has won a George Foster Peabody Award for Distinguished Public Service Broadcasting.

Panelists

Alexis Gambis




Alexis Gambis expects to complete his Ph.D. in cancer genetics at Rockefeller University in July 2009. He hopes to continue his studies in filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is founder/artistic director of the Imagine Science Film Festival, an annual festival of feature films about science and scientists that made its debut in October 2008, attracting 1,500 people to screenings in three of New York City’s five boroughs. Mr. Gambis is the youngest member of their five-member Sloan Film Advisory Committee. Mr. Gambis’ short films have been a feature of TalkingScience’s bi-monthly science variety shows, TalkingScience Cabarets.




Cindy Maria Quezada, Ph.D.

Cindy Quezada will complete her post-doctoral fellowship in infectious diseases at Rockefeller University in April 2009. In 2005, she won a L’Oreal/UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship, and used her prize money to study drug-resistant tuberculosis in Rwanda. She has emceed the TalkingScience Cabaret, and produced a Web photo blog and videos in both Spanish and English for TalkingScience’s Web site.

Talia Page

Talia Page is TalkingScience’s Projects Manager, in charge of the TalkingScience Cabaret and other public events. To extend students’ involvement in science after school Cabarets, she has developed PodCast Pals, a Web 2.0 version of pen pals. A future astronaut with Virgin Galactic, she writes a blog, “Space Cadet,” about space for TalkingScience.org.

Video Credits: Katrina Boston, Kenyatta Thompson, Jesse Medalia-Strauss

Thank you to Alice Ly and Yale University for hosting the panel

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