Researcher. Leader. Catalyst.
I catalyze change -
in & for scicomm.
I conduct pioneering scholarship at the intersections of science communication, the scholarship of engagement, and academic leadership. I leverage insights from this work to forge new frameworks and tools to ethically share science. My secret sauce? Activating deep synergies between science, art, and humanities, plus a hefty dose of administrative nerdery.
This is me
​Professor of Practice, Department of Zoology & Physiology
Director, University of Wyoming Science Communication Initiative​
My goal is to enhance ethical leadership capacity in science communication, science, and academia. To do so, I conduct research on:
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mechanisms to enhance scientists’ communications skills, and
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mechanisms of ethical, transdisciplinary leadership, research, and teaching to foster civic engagement with science.
To achieve positive change, people need models, tools, and ways of working together that are concrete, equitable, and evidence based. My past work offers models from community development, science journalism, adult literacy, art-science integration, and scicomm training. I now leverage insights from these transdisciplinary fields to lead and study efforts to enhance student, staff, and faculty capacity for success in scicomm.
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I am also:
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an elected Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America,
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founding director of the UWyo SciComm Initiative, and
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co-founder of Meteor: The Honest Podcast about Scicomm with Impact.
In all my work, I aim to demystify the hidden curriculum of academia because I am a first-generation college student, was a cultural/linguistic minority immigrant in French Canada, and started with a wide-ranging, alt-ac career in community development, science journalism, and informal education. I have published 300+ articles in peer-reviewed and popular outlets including American Scientist, BioScience, Ecology & Society, Nature, and Nature Communication. My first book (co-authored with Stephen B. Heard) – Teaching and Mentoring Science Writers: An Evidence-Based Approach – will be out in Fall 2025 from the University of Chicago Press, and I blog about enhancing academia, creative approaches to communication, writing, life, and more at School of Good Trouble.
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