Experience

Indicio

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder and Vice President of Communications & Governance

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  Indicio develops enterprise-class verifiable data solutions that optimize your existing systems ensuring digital privacy, efficiency, and trust. Indicio develops enterprise-class verifiable data solutions that optimize your existing systems ensuring digital privacy, efficiency, and trust.



Trinity College Dublin

• Ireland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  Developing science communication curricula at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute; teaching on the European Commission funded INITIATE project Developing science communication curricula at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute; teaching on the European Commission funded INITIATE project



CynjaTech

• United States
• Computer and Network Security

• Vice President Research CynjaTech

  • Dec 2017 - Present

  In addition to promoting data literacy through Sense About Science USA, I'm promoting data privacy—how you can and *should* take control of your data—with CynjaTech. My role is to think and write about privacy issues, and my first white paper, GDPR: Threat or Opportunity can be downloaded from www.cynjatech.com. In addition to promoting data literacy through Sense About Science USA, I'm promoting data privacy—how you can and *should* take control of your data—with CynjaTech. My role is to think and write about privacy issues, and my first white paper, GDPR: Threat or Opportunity can be downloaded from www.cynjatech.com.



Sense About Science USA

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Founding Director

  • Jul 2014 - Mar 2022

  Sense About Science USA‘s mission is to create and curate a national conversation about the value of scientific progress and the importance of evidence and transparency. We launched in late 2014, in Brooklyn, New York as a nonpartisan, non-profit 501c3. We run a collaborative project with the American Statistical Association—STATS.org—to promote statistical literacy, and the US arm of the AllTrials campaign for clinical trial transparency.Our sister organization in the UK is the charitable trust, Sense About Science, founded in 2003, which grew to play a pivotal role in promoting scientific understanding and defending scientific integrity in the UK and Europe. Show less

• Editor, STATS.org

  • Jan 2015 - Apr 2016

  STATS.org is a collaboration between Sense About Science USA and the American Statistical Association. It was formerly affiliated with George Mason University.STATS.org mission is to promote statistical literacy in society, primarily through engaging with the news media. We created an advisory board of statisticians from around the US who volunteer to help journalists on deadline with statistical analysis; thus far, we have dealt with over 75 queries from journalists at news organizations large and small. In 2016, we launched an interactive workshop series for newsrooms, journalism schools, and journalism organizations, and to data have presented at the National Press Foundation, and Vox Media. We also publish detailed statistical analyses to highlight the importance of statistics to understanding not only the news but to science itself.“Basic numeracy is necessary for a science journalist, but few of us have the statistical training to evaluate the techniques used—and, consequently, the results arrived at—in the published literature. STATS.org is providing a tremendous service in helping us wade through the research to evaluate the quality of the evidence. I live in fear of being taken in by poor-quality research, and STATS is invaluable to me” —Tamar Haspel, Washington Post columnist/contributor National GeographicIn addition to editing and illustrating STATS.org, I designed the website. Show less



The Sovrin Foundation

• Provo, Utah Area

• Communications Consultant

  • Jun 2018 - Mar 2020

  Sovrin is a global nonprofit providing self-sovereign identity to everyone and everything. Sovrin is a global nonprofit providing self-sovereign identity to everyone and everything.



Ceres2030

• Cornell University

• Communications Consultant

  • Aug 2018 - Jan 2020

  Ceres2030 is a partnership between Cornell IP-CALS, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD). It's goal is to bring a global community together to build an evidence-based consensus on sustainable solutions to end hunger in line with the UN's SDG 2. Ceres2030 is a partnership between Cornell IP-CALS, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD). It's goal is to bring a global community together to build an evidence-based consensus on sustainable solutions to end hunger in line with the UN's SDG 2.



Cornell University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Fellow

  • Jun 2016 - Jun 2019

  Visiting fellow at the Alliance For Science Visiting fellow at the Alliance For Science



The American Statistical Association

• Alexandria, Virginia

• Communications Consultant

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

  Advised on communications strategy, collaborated on efforts to save Puerto Rico's independent statistical agency, ran all PR for annual Joint Statistical Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, the largest gathering of statisticians worldwide. Research presented at JSM was widely reported in U.S. and international media. Advised on communications strategy, collaborated on efforts to save Puerto Rico's independent statistical agency, ran all PR for annual Joint Statistical Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, the largest gathering of statisticians worldwide. Research presented at JSM was widely reported in U.S. and international media.



Freelance Journalist

• Washington DC & New York

• Reporter, Critic, Essayist, Columnist

  • Aug 1998 - Jul 2015

  I wrote features, profiles, and "Lunch Withs" for the Financial Times; book reviews for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and BookForum; a weekly column for Forbes.com, a weekly column for The Daily; science news for Newsweek; and contributed features and op-eds to many other venues, including The New York Times Women in the World, The Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Salon, The Awl, AOL, etc. I was a commentator on WGBH's The World and have appeared on WNYC's On The Media, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, and the BBC. Show less



STATS.org

• Brooklyn, New York

• Editor-at-large

  • 2003 - Jun 2014

  My role at STATS is to write critically about the way science and statistics are used in public policy debates and in the media. As noted in my summary, this gives me enormous latitude as to who I write for and on what topic. I work closely with Research Director, Rebecca Goldin, who is a Professor of Mathematics at George Mason University, on story ideas and analysis. And I speak frequently at scientific and professional conferences. My role at STATS is to write critically about the way science and statistics are used in public policy debates and in the media. As noted in my summary, this gives me enormous latitude as to who I write for and on what topic. I work closely with Research Director, Rebecca Goldin, who is a Professor of Mathematics at George Mason University, on story ideas and analysis. And I speak frequently at scientific and professional conferences.