TalkingScience is made up of a team of dedicated bloggers, video producers, web designers, and senior staff to keep the rest organized. These are the people who make TalkingScience possible. Also see our partners and sponsors.

Senior Staff

Ann Marie Cunningham, executive director, TalkingScience. Ann Marie is a best-selling science print journalist (Ryan White: My Own Story) and award-winning television producer who helped develop the PBS series Ghostwriter, CRO, Cyberchase, and Innovation. Among other broadcast projects, she has produced for Sesame Workshop (formerly Children’s Television Workshop), ABC, NBC, PBS, and New York Times Television. In 1979, she served on the staff of President Jimmy Carter’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. She is responsible for TalkingScience’s fundraising, project development, and outreach.

Danielle Dana is responsible for fundraising to ensure the continuation of TalkingScience’s programs. Danielle has an educational background in psychology, anthropology, and business and is originally from Northern California. Formerly, she served as theDirector of Communications for the Leakey Foundation, a nonprofit committed to increasing scientific knowledge and public understanding of human origins. In 2003, Danielle established a nonprofit called the African Orphans Foundation that serves female children orphaned by AIDS, famine, war, and other misfortunes of life in Africa. Danielle is especially passionate about human evolution and science education advocacy, but is fascinated by all aspects of science.

Web

Austen Saltz, Webmaster
Raul Velazquez, logo and brand design

Video Interns

Jesse Medalia Strauss, Video Producer
Julian Cohen-Serrins, Assistant Video Producer
Austen Saltz, Assistant Video Producer

Scientific Advisors

Sat Bhattacharya, Ph.D., is a researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and adjunct professor at Rockefeller University. He has been honored by the New York Academy of Sciences for founding the Harlem Children Society, which places New York City high school students with mentors to carry out research in labs at the city’s leading scientific institutions. Most of the students go on to college.

Dalton Conley, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at New York University, where he studies race and class. In spring 2005, the National Science Board honored Dr. Conley for excellence in communicating science.

Jeffrey M. Friedman, Ph.D., is Professor of Molecular Biology at Rockefeller University, and an expert on the genetic origins of obesity. He is advising us on Teens Talk Health.

Sheril Kirshenbaum, Ph.D. is a marine research at Duke University, a blogger and author (with Chris Mooney) of Unscientific America: How Scientific Iilliteracy Threatens Our Future

Ainissa G. Ramirez, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University. She created and hosts Yale’s Science Saturdays series (www.sciencesaturdays.org) for students in the seventh grade and up. The series introduces students to scientists who they are and how and why they do what they do. Dr. Ramirez also advises the NISE Network, a group of science museums and outreach organizations engaged in informing the public about nanotechnology.

David Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor of Chemistry and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin. He has developed new tools to speed DNA mapping that accelerated work on the human genome. Currently, he is scientific advisor for a new play about genetics supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Dorothy Shore Zinberg, Ph.D., holds joint appointments at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and University College London. At the Kennedy School, she is Lecturer in Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and on the faculty of the Program for Science, Technology and Public Policy. She recently served on NATO’s Science and Technology Policy Committee.