Dr. Raven Baxter joined National Fair Housing Alliance President and CEO Lisa Rice on June 28, 2026, for a fireside chat on housing discrimination at the alliance's national conference in Washington.
Dr. Raven Baxter joined three fellow University at Buffalo alumnae on the UB Distinguished Keynote Panel at the 4th Annual WNY Leadership Summit on May 29, 2026.
Dr. Raven Baxter made the case for training and support for scientists online on Geeks for America's Geeks Live on April 21, 2026.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the interactive closing keynote of SCIENCE TALK '26, the Association of Science Communicators' 10th conference, in Portland, Oregon, on March 27, 2026.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the keynote address at Oklahoma Research Day 2026, which drew nearly 650 registered attendees from 18 institutions to Northeastern State University.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the UNC Greensboro Department of Biology seminar on Nov. 19, 2025, on why graduate students need science communication skills.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the opening keynote of the 2025 California Science Education Conference in Palm Springs, arguing that science classrooms should teach students to communicate science.
In the first half of 2025, Dr. Raven Baxter spoke with NIH postdoctoral fellows, Penn State Hazleton students and faculty, and Chesapeake Bay interns about science careers and communicating science.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the keynote that opened Activation Capital's free Science Rocks speaker series at the VA Bio+Tech Park in Richmond on May 8, 2025.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave Virginia Tech's Hugh and Ethel Kelly Lecture on November 6, 2024, on the responsibility scientists carry to counter misinformation.
Dr. Raven Baxter co-hosted the Halloween-themed No Coast SciComm Science Slam livestream on Oct. 30, 2024, as six scientists told scary science stories for a public vote.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the keynote at PepsiCo's Juneteenth Celebration on June 5, 2024, a virtual address to company employees.
In 2024, Dr. Raven Baxter led branding sessions for National Science & Technology Medals Foundation inSTEM Scholars and for graduate trainees at NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Vilcek Institute.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the keynote at the sold-out second annual Nebraska Women in STEM Conference in La Vista, Nebraska, on April 4, 2024.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the opening keynote of the 12th annual ARIS Summit in Omaha on April 3, 2024, for nearly 150 broader-impacts professionals.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave virtual talks at Caltech, Johnson Matthey and McMaster University between Feb. 27 and March 14, 2024, on misinformation, trust and women in scientific leadership.
Dr. Raven Baxter co-presented science communication tips to almost 600 FDA staff at an Office of the Chief Scientist webinar on January 25, 2024.
Dr. Raven Baxter led an interactive branding workshop for Black marine scientists on Nov. 27, 2023, at the first in-person Black In Marine Science Week in Norfolk, Virginia.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave Howard University's Wednesday biology seminar on October 25, 2023, comparing misinformation to genetic mutations and asking students about falling public trust in scientists.
On the Productivity Alchemy podcast in October 2023, Dr. Raven Baxter talked about failure, The Science Haven's Stellar Dreams program and her work as a science communicator.
On October 5, 2023, Dr. Raven Baxter spoke for The Science Haven on the reaction panel at the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA's virtual public meeting on health misinformation.
Dr. Raven Baxter emceed the opening day of the 12th annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Seattle on August 1, 2023.
Dr. Raven Baxter spoke at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Johns Hopkins and the University at Buffalo between February and June 2023.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave a guest talk to Disney technology staff in the company's JETA series at its Glendale, California campus on April 17, 2023.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the opening keynote at the 2023 STEMcx Conference, an all-day STEM conference for students ages 9 to 15 at New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore.
Dr. Raven Baxter opened Princeton University's Amplifying Voices Distinguished Lecture Series on Sept. 28, 2022, with a public conversation on authenticity, trust and diversity in science.
Dr. Raven Baxter joined STAT's Helen Branswell, The Washington Post's Dan Diamond and three physicians on a Harvard Belfer Center panel about communicating risk during COVID-19 and mpox.
Dr. Raven Baxter worked with Yonkers high school students on a bacterial transformation lab at the Regeneron DNA Learning Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave keynotes to students and early-career scientists across 2022, including the closing address at Adelphi University's Research Day and a national conference talk for Phi Sigma Rho.
Dr. Raven Baxter joined a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health panel on dismantling disinformation on June 6, 2022, and argued that a sense of belonging in science is what lets her take apart false information.
Dr. Raven Baxter spoke on the closing panel of the inaugural STARZ #TakeTheLead Summit in West Hollywood on May 19, 2022, on representation in science.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the STEM Speaker Series keynote at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, on April 11, 2022, on resilience and representation in science.
Dr. Raven Baxter gave the closing keynote at the National Science Teaching Association's 2022 national conference in Houston, urging teachers to model the change they want in their students.
Raven Baxter gave online keynotes in 2021 for Los Medanos College's MESA program and for Monterey Peninsula College with its Umoja program.
Raven Baxter gave the keynote for the My STEMM Future celebration on Oct. 20, 2021, telling UK secondary students that failure, discomfort and a winding path are all part of a career in science.
Raven Baxter used superhero films to teach biology to comic fans at Virtuous Con on June 20, 2021, opening a season of talks that ran through Johns Hopkins in October.
Raven Baxter gave a keynote at VOICES 2021, an online conference on teaching STEM with song, on Sept. 26, 2021, with a talk on showing up in science as yourself.
Raven Baxter gave the opening keynote of Climate Generation's 16th Summer Institute for Climate Change Education on July 28, 2021, telling educators that advocating for the planet should not be seen as radical.
Raven Baxter gave the opening-day keynote, "Unapologetically You in STEM," at the Association of Medical Illustrators' 75th annual meeting, held online July 20 to 28, 2021.
On Bulletin's launch day, June 29, 2021, Raven Baxter told Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook needed scientists on social media, where information spreads fast.
Raven Baxter judged all four of the Museum of Science's 2021 Reach Out Science Slams and announced the judges' winner at the May 4 finals.
Raven Baxter gave the keynote, "Unapologetically You in STEMM," at the University of Minnesota's 2021 Women in STEMM Summit, held online on April 30, 2021.
Raven Baxter told the Penn State Hazleton community on April 15, 2021, how being told she did not belong in science led her to find her voice in STEM.
In a March 12, 2021, webinar for RTI International's Distinguished Lecture Series, Raven Baxter argued that workplaces need a sense of belonging to sustain diversity in science.
Raven Baxter gave the keynote at the Intrepid Museum's online Girls in Science and Engineering Day on March 6, 2021, urging girls to find spaces where they belong.
At the Rosalind Franklin Society's 2020 virtual meeting, Raven Baxter said inclusion and equity are sometimes an afterthought in STEM and urged mandatory science literacy for every student.
Raven Baxter was the featured guest of the National Science & Technology Medals Foundation's STEM Spotlight series in an episode that premiered Dec. 3, 2020, on diversity, representation and science communication careers.
Raven Baxter gave four virtual talks in fall 2020, for the Connecticut Science Center, Medaille College, Yale's Black Postdoctoral Association and WISDOM at UT Health San Antonio.
Between May and October 2020, Raven Baxter met students online through five youth programs in New York, Georgia and Maryland, from Buffalo's BuffaloPAUSE challenge to a Montgomery Blair magnet class.
Raven Baxter led her Part of Your World workshop on belonging for Chan Zuckerberg Biohub staff on Sept. 15, 2020, and for the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology on Oct. 1.
In a 2020 TEDxGreatMills talk, Raven Baxter argued that the image of a scientist as a white man keeps coworkers from seeing that she belongs in science.
Raven Baxter opened SciComm 2020, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's online science communication conference, with a keynote on finding your voice and breaking the box of what a scientist looks like.
