Conference Leadership


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Cristine Russell

Co-Chair, Harvard Kennedy School

Ron Winslow

Co-Chair, Wall Street Journal

Dalia Abd El Salam

Egypt

Luc Allemand

France

Laura Helmuth

NASW President and The Washington Post

Rob Irion

UC Santa Cruz Science Communication

Pete Farley

UCSF

Lynne Friedmann

ScienceWriters editor

Ivan Oransky

AHCJ

Charlie Petit

CASW Board Member

Robert Sanders

UC Berkeley

William Skane

National Academy of Sciences

Mandi Smallhorne

South Africa

Tinsley Davis

Executive Director, NASW

Rosalind Reid

Executive Director, CASW


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Deborah Blum

Chair, Knight Science Journalism @ MIT

Alan Boyle

Geekwire

Alicia Chang

The Associated Press

Jens Degett

Freelance Science Journalist, Denmark

Sedeer el-Showk

Freelance Science Journalist, Morocco

Laura Helmuth

The Washington Post

Robert Lee Hotz

Wall Street Journal

Apoorva Mandavilli

Spectrum

Betsy Mason

Freelance Science Journalist

Rosalia Omungo

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

Subhra Priyadarshini

Nature India

Valeria Román

Clarín, Argentina

Aleida Rueda

scidev.net, México

Richard Stone

Science

Mohammed Yahia

Nature Middle East, Egypt


ADDITIONAL COMMITTEES & VOLUNTEERS

Regional Committee on Latin America and the Caribbean

Estrella Burgos

Co-Chair, ¿Cómo ves?, México

Czerne Reid

Co-Chair, University of Florida College of Medicine and Jamaica

Jennifer Cox

Jennifer Cox

Chair, North Carolina State University

Rob Irion

Chair, Science Communication Program, UC Santa Cruz

Diego Graglia

Co-Chair, Science Communication Program, UC Santa Cruz

Robert Sanders

Chair, UC Berkeley

Robin Lloyd

Chair, Undark Magazine