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Dr. Raven Baxter, known as Dr. Raven the Science Maven, is a molecular biologist and educator who leads public engagement in science and health, focused on building public trust and centering joy, curiosity and empathy even in the face of mistrust and fear.
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Dr. Raven Baxter is a molecular biologist and educator who leads public engagement in science and health, known as Dr. Raven the Science Maven. She engages the public on difficult and contested topics in science and, even in the face of mistrust, skepticism and fear, centers joy, curiosity and empathy. A former drug discovery scientist, she holds a doctorate focused on science communication from the University at Buffalo and reaches more than 660,000 followers across nine platforms. She has led science communication in academic medicine, and she co-hosted Season 5 and hosted Season 6 of Pfizer’s Science Will Win. She is President and Executive Director of The Science Haven, a nonprofit whose Stellar Dreams program gives children telescopes and trains them as junior astronomers. She chairs the Science Communication Consortium on Ethics and leads the brand and communications revitalization of the Washington Academy of Sciences, co-founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1898.
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Dr. Raven Baxter’s curiosity about the world began early. In sixth grade, it earned her a scholarship to U.S. Space Camp, and it led her to a career in science.
She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology at SUNY Buffalo State, where she studied genetics and molecular biology, and began her career as a drug discovery scientist.
In 2016, she brought science to social media as Dr. Raven the Science Maven, with music as her signature. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she answered the public’s questions about the virus and vaccines. Her antibody song “Antibodyody” was referenced on Saturday Night Live, and Fortune named her to its 40 Under 40 in Health in 2020.
When a biology doctoral program considered her public engagement goals outside its scope, she pursued a doctorate focused on science communication at the University at Buffalo, conferred in 2022, studying how hip-hop can communicate science to new audiences.
From 2024 to 2025, she directed science communication at Mount Sinai’s Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness. Pfizer named her co-host of its flagship podcast, Science Will Win, in 2025 and host in 2026. She founded and chairs the Science Communication Consortium on Ethics and serves on the board of the Washington Academy of Sciences, co-founded by Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, D.C., in 1898. She leads the academy’s brand and communications revitalization ahead of its 130th anniversary. In 2023 she founded The Science Haven, a nonprofit whose Stellar Dreams program gives children telescopes and trains them as junior astronomers, and she serves as its President and Executive Director. Her honors include Forbes 30 Under 30 and the EBONY Power 100, and Season 5 of Science Will Win, which she co-hosted, won a Gold W3 Award.
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Our next speaker is Dr. Raven Baxter, a molecular biologist and educator who leads public engagement in science and health, known as Dr. Raven the Science Maven. She engages the public on difficult and contested topics in science, centering joy, curiosity and empathy even in the face of mistrust, skepticism and fear. She began her career in drug discovery, brought science to social media in 2016 and answered the public’s questions during the COVID-19 pandemic, when one of her science songs was referenced on Saturday Night Live. She co-hosted and later hosted Pfizer’s podcast Science Will Win, and today she leads The Science Haven, a nonprofit that gives children telescopes through its Stellar Dreams program, and the brand and communications revitalization of the Washington Academy of Sciences, an organization co-founded by Alexander Graham Bell. Please welcome Dr. Raven Baxter.
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