Speakers
Kendra Abkowitz
Chief Sustainability and Resilience Officer
Metro Nashville and Davidson County, Office of Mayor John Cooper
Simon Adler
Senior Producer
Radiolab
Deji Akinwande
UT AUSTIN
Stephon Alexander
Professor
Brown University
Bill Andrews
Senior Editor
Quanta
Aseem Ansari
R.J. Ulrich Endowed Chair
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Geoffrey Baum
Executive Director
Michelson Philanthropies
Helen Beere
Senior Scientist, Immunology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Deborah Blum
Program Director, Knight Science Journalism
MIT
Brooke Borel
Articles Editor
Undark
Kelsey Breseman
Civic Science Fellow at Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
Andrew Campbell
Decarbonization Senior Project Manager
Tennessee Valley Authority
Ginger Campbell, MD
Speaker
Brain Science, Books and Ideas, and Graying Rainbows
Yvonne M. Carroll
Director, Patient Services
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Shraddha Chakradhar
Deputy news editor, diversity
Science Magazine
Sedona Chinn
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dan Ciccarone
Professor
University of California, San Francisco
Jon Cohen
Senior correspondent
Science
Matt Covington
Associate Professor
University of Arkansas
Amber Dance
New Horizons Program Director
CASW
Marta Derecka
Instructor, St. Jude Faculty
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
James Downing
President and Chief Executive Officer
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Carmen Drahl (she|her)
Journalist and Editor
Freelance
Jim Dryden
Director of Broadcast and Podcasts
Washington University School of Medicine
Katherine Eban
Contributing Editor
Vanity Fair
Kat Eschner
Lead researcher and segment producer, Big [If True]
TVO
Josh Fischman
Alice Fleerackers
Simon Fraser University
Jennifer Fogarty
Baylor College of Medicine
Laura Forczyk
Space Scientist & Industry Analyst
Astralytical
Diana Greene Foster
Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Director of the Bixby Population Sciences Research Unit at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health
University of California, San Francisco
Brian Freibaum
St Jude Childrens Hospital
Katharine Gammon
Freelance writer
Freelance
Marni Gelbart
Director of Programs for the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd)
Harvard Medical School
Virginia Gewin
Science Journalist
Freelance
Alyssa Goodman
Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy
Harvard University
Alyssa Goodman
Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy
Harvard University
Douglas Green
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Mara Grunbaum
Independent Science Journalist
Clifford (Cliff) Guy
Director, Laboratory Operations
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Deb Haarsma
President
BioLogos
Ayanna Hampton
More for Memphis
Education & Youth Development Lead Facilitator
Joe Hanson
Host, Writer, Producer
PBS Digital Studios
Erika Check Hayden
Director, Science Communication Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
Alexander Headley
Assistant Professor
University of Memphis
Laura Helmuth
Editor in Chief
Scientific American
Katy Hinman
Director, Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Zahra Hirji
Climate reporter
Bloomberg News
Rebecca E. Hirsch
Freelance Writer
Multiple publishers
Esther Honig
Temp producer
StoryCorps
Melissa Hudson
Director, Cancer Survivorship Division; Co-Leader, Cancer Control & Survivorship Program; The Charles E. Williams Endowed Chair of Oncology-Cancer Survivorship
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
J. Benjamin Hurlbut
Associate Professor
Arizona State University
Sabrina Imbler
Staff Writer
Defector Media
Fatimah Jackson
Professor of Biology and Director of the W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory
Howard University
Katelyn Jetelina
Director of Population Health Analytics
Meadows Health Policy Institute; Your Local Epidemiologist
Maya L. Kapoor
Eli Kintisch
Video producer, science journalist
Andrew T. Kodani
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Thimali Kodikara
Creative Impact Producer & Co-Host
Mothers Of Invention
Debra Utacia Krol
Indigenous Affairs Reporter – Climate, Culture & Commerce
Arizona Republic
Jon Krosnick
Frederic O. Glover Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Psychology
Stanford University
Santosh Kumar
Professor of Computer Science
The University of Memphis
Esther Landhuis
Science and Health Journalist
Freelance
Stephanie Lee
Senior Reporter
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dawn Levy
Science Writer and Public Information Officer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Robin Lloyd
President
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
Catherine Matacic
Science Editor
HHMI | Tangled Bank Studios
Jermey N. A. Matthews
Senior Acquisitions Editor
The MIT Press
Amy Maxmen
Science reporter and Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Justina McEvoy
Lead Scientist
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Usha McFarling
National Science Correspondent
STAT
David McRaney
Writer/Editor/Journalist
You Are Not So Smart
Lathea Mondesir
Associate Director of Publicity
Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Manny Morone
Editor, news and features
Chemical & Engineering News
Caitlin Knowles Myers
John G. McCullough Professor of Economics; Co-director of the Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods
Middlebury College
Nalini Nadkarni
Professor of Biological Sciences
University of Utah
Michael E. Newman
Senior Media Relations Representative
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Eric Nost
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative member; Assistant Professor of geography, University of Guelph
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative; University of Guelph
Cassandra Nuñez
Research Assistant Professor
The University of Memphis
Tamika C. Odum
Associate Professor of Sociology; Researcher, Ohio Policy Evaluation Network (OPEN)
University of Cincinnati
Stephen Ornes
Freelance Writer and Writer-in-Residence
Vanderbilt University
Rodrigo Pérez Ortega
Staff writer
Science magazine
Luba Ostashevsky
Literary Agent
Ayesha Pande Literary
Lindsay Patterson
Co-Founder & CEO
Tumble Media
Kendra Pierre-Louis
Senior Reporter
Gimlet
Andrea Pitzer
Independent journalist and author
Freelance
Kendall Powell (she/her)
Senior Editor Nature Careers
Nature
Jane Qiu
Independent science writer
Freelance
David Quammen
freelance
Spoorthy Raman
Independent Science Journalist
Freelance
Rebecca Randall
Journalist
Freelance
Czerne Reid
Senior Lecturer
University of Florida College of Medicine
Rosalind Reid
Senior Advisor
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
Markus Rex
Head of Atmospheric Physics
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research
Ciara Reyes-Ton
Digital Content Editor
BioLogos
Charles Roberts
Director, St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Destinée-Charisse Royal
Founder
Royal Media Lab
Cristine Russell
Journalist
Freelance
Jeffrey M. Rybak
Instructor, St. Jude Faculty
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Steve Sapienza
Senior Strategist, News Partnerships
Pulitzer Center
Daniel Savic
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Charlie Schmidt
Science writer
Freelance
Sarah Scoles
Science Journalist
Freelance
Anang A. Shelat
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty Director, Lead Discovery Informatics and Compound Management
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Olga Shpak
Former: Research Associate
Former: Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences
Erica Sirrine, PhD, LCSW, FT
Director, Social Work
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Patty Skuster
Visiting professor, Beasley School of Law; Fellow at the Center for Public Health Law Research
Temple University
Robert Smalley
Research Professor
University of Memphis
Ashley Smart
Associate Director // Senior Editor
Knight Science Journalism Fellowship // Undark Magazine
Ross Sowell
Assistant professor
Rhodes College
Nicholas St. Fleur
Science Writer & Associate Editorial Director of Events
STAT
Danna Staaf
Freelance writer
Multiple publishers
Shannan Lenke Stoll
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative member
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative; University of Oregon
Rich Stone
Senior science editor
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
Wendi C. Thomas
Editor and publisher
MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Lenora Todaro
Freelance Writer
Multiple publishers
Tom Ulrich
Associate Director, Science Communications, Office of Communications
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Dan Vergano
Science Reporter
Grid News
Natasha Vizcarra
Freelance Science Writer and Editor
Multiple publishers
Tracy Vonderbrink
Freelance writer
Multiple publishers
April Ward-McGrory
Patient Advocate/Public Speaker
SCFT
Sarah Webb
Associate Science Media Editor
Krell Institute
Richard Webby
Faculty member
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Mitchell Weiss
Arthur Nienhuis Endowed Chair in Hematology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Craig Welch
Senior Staff Writer
National Geographic
Zakiya Whatley
Co-Host and Executive Producer
Dope Labs Podcast
Regan Williams
Medical Director, Trauma Services
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
Cassandra Willyard
Science Writer
Freelance
Leah Cathryn Windsor
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
The University of Memphis
Mitch Withers
Associate Research Professor
The University of Memphis
Alex Witze (she/her)
President
Science Writers Association of the Rocky Mountains (SWARM)
Marcin Wlodarski
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
The University of Memphis
Lauren Wolf
Bureau Chief for the Americas
Nature news
Ashley Yeager
Associate Editor
Science News
Lina Zeldovich
Science Journalist & Author
Freelance