Speaking

Wonder, delivered at the molecular scale

There is chemistry in your coffee, your hair, and the smell of the air after it rains, and everyday life gets a lot more fun once you can see it. I walk audiences through the molecules behind an ordinary day the same way I do for the people who follow me online, keeping the science honest and the delight up front. People leave noticing the science in things they had stopped noticing at all.

Made for · Corporate events, general audiences, museums and festivals, and any room that wants to fall back in love with how things work

• ✓The molecular stories behind coffee, hair, soap, and the smell of rain
• ✓A feel for how scientists chase a mechanism, from question to answer
• ✓Permission to be delighted by things you see every day

You Don't Look Like a Scientist, my TEDx talk

'You don't look like a scientist' is a sentence I heard for years, and eventually it became my TEDx talk. This keynote is my story, from failing out of college to earning a Ph.D. to reaching millions of people with science, and what it taught me about who feels welcome in this field and how to make more room. It's personal and honest, and it sends people home with clear ways to open the door for someone else.

Made for · Universities and colleges, people and culture leaders, STEM programs, and commencements

• ✓Why representation changes who tries science in the first place
• ✓What belonging looks like in labs, classrooms, and teams, in practice
• ✓Ways to open doors from whatever seat you hold

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Trust is built by communicators, one audience at a time

Public trust in science is earned the same way trust is earned anywhere. You show up, you speak plainly, and you respect the people in the room. I've studied this as a science communication researcher and lived it with tens of millions of people online and with teams at Pfizer and the Reagan-⁠Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration. In this talk I get specific about what earns an audience's trust and the habits that quietly erode it, with examples from campaigns, clinics, and comment sections.

Made for · Pharma and biotech communications, public health teams, research institutions, and science media

• ✓What builds trust with an audience, and what quietly erodes it
• ✓How culturally responsive communication works on the ground
• ✓Ways to put evidence in people's hands instead of asking for belief

An outside look at how organizations talk about their science

I've advised leaders across education, government, universities, and industry, directed science communication inside academic medicine, and worked with teams at Pfizer and the Reagan-⁠Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration. From that seat you start to see the same gaps everywhere. Brilliant research nobody hears about, communicators without support, audiences an organization swears it can't reach. In this talk I share what the strongest science organizations do differently and where to start in yours.

Made for · Executives and deans, communications and public affairs leadership, and federal and nonprofit leaders

• ✓The gaps that show up again and again in science organizations
• ✓What the organizations that communicate well do differently
• ✓A place to start in your own organization, whatever your seat