Dr. Raven the Science Maven

Viruses, Vaccines & COVID-19

The American Museum of Natural History selected me to make the science of COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and vaccines approachable for a general audience. I narrated Viruses, Vaccines & COVID-19, the museum’s award-winning four-part animated series on viruses, the tools scientists use to study them and the way pandemics end.

American Museum of Natural History, 4 episodes, Bronze Anthem Award winner

Brief

The American Museum of Natural History needed the science of COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and vaccines made approachable for a general audience.

My role

I narrated the four-part animated series on viruses, the tools scientists use to study them and the way a pandemic ends.

Outcome

The series won a Bronze Anthem Award and has passed 79,000 views.

Bronze Anthem Awardwon for the series

79,000+views across the series

4episodes narrated

We’re so happy with the end result and couldn’t have asked for a better narrator than Raven. The work she’s done to educate people about this virus and science in general is so incredibly inspiring to us all.
Erin ChapmanAssistant Director of New Media, American Museum of Natural History

Watch the series

What Is a Virus?

The first episode explains what a virus is and how something not quite alive can have such large effects.

37,000+ views

Episode 1

What Tools Do Scientists Use To Study Viruses?

The instruments and methods that let researchers see and study something far too small to watch directly.

10,000+ views

Episode 2

What Are Vaccines and How Do They Work?

The way a vaccine prepares the immune system to recognize a threat before it encounters the pathogen itself.

17,000+ views

Episode 3

How Can a Pandemic End?

The conditions required for a pandemic to end, and why the end arrives gradually.

13,000+ views

Episode 4

American Museum of Natural History, 4 episodes, Bronze Anthem Award winner

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