Board Members

Christie Aschwanden

Vice President

Christie Aschwanden is author of Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery, and co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast about the creative process. She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for The Washington Post.

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Deborah Blum

Board Member

Deborah Blum, director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT and the publisher of Undark magazine, is a Pulitzer-Prize winning science journalist, columnist and author of six books, most recently, The Poison Squad, a 2018 New York Times Notable Book.

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Alan Boyle

Immediate Past President

Alan Boyle is a contributing editor for GeekWire, the creator of Cosmic Log, the founding host of the Fiction Science podcast and the author of The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference.

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Richard Harris

Board member

Richard Harris is a longtime former science correspondent at National Public Radio; before that, he was a science writer at the San Francisco Examiner.

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Bill Kearney

Board Member

William Kearney is the executive director of the Office of News and Public Information at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and editor of Issues in Science and Technology.

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Maggie Koerth

Board Member

Maggie Koerth is a senior science reporter for FiveThirtyEight.com. Previously, she was the science editor at BoingBoing.net and a columnist for The New York Times Magazine.

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Celeste LeCompte

Board Member

Celeste LeCompte is the chief audience officer at Chicago Public Media. In her past roles, she has focused on building media companies that serve the needs of their communities with independent reporting and high-quality products.

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Robin Lloyd

President

Robin Lloyd, a science writer going back to the Galileo mission to Jupiter, now works as a freelance writer and contributing editor to Scientific American, where she was news editor from 2009 to 2015.

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Betsy Mason

Secretary

Betsy Mason is a freelance science journalist, co-author of All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey (National Geographic, 2018), and a former Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT (2015-16). She is currently an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow researching and reporting on how the science of animal behavior and cognition is changing the way we think about other animals.

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Debbie Ponchner

Board Member

Debbie Ponchner is a Costa Rica-based writer who is the editor of Knowable en español.

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Czerne Reid

Board Member

Czerne Reid is an instructional associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Journalism, College of Journalism and Communications, at the University of Florida. She also is a contributing editor for Science News and an independent journalist whose work has appeared in National Geographic and other outlets. Reid is a lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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Cristine Russell

Past President

Cristine Russell is an award-winning freelance journalist who has written about science and medicine for more than three decades. She is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, currently at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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Ashley Smart

Treasurer

Ashley Smart is the associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT and a senior editor at Undark magazine.

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Rich Stone

Board Member

Rich Stone is the senior science editor for HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, where he oversees science content for documentaries and other nonfiction productions and manages media partnerships.

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Ken Trevett

Board Member

Kenneth P. Trevett stepped down in 2014 as president of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, formerly the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, in San Antonio, Texas, a position he had held since 2008. Trevett has worked as a senior manager/administrator and legal counsel in biomedical research/education/clinical service institutions for 31 years, all but three of which have been with independent, not-for-profit research organizations such as TBRI.

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Dan Vergano

Board Member

Dan Vergano is a senior opinion editor for Scientific American.

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