LIZ NEELEY
FOUNDING MEMBER
Liz began her career in ocean conservation, where she learned the hard way that the data don’t speak for themselves. After a crushing policy loss on the international stage, she was determined to understand how power actually works. She focused first on agenda-setting via press coverage and then within social media, before turning her attention to the undeniable impact of personal stories.
She put those experiences to work training thousands of scientists in science communication and storytelling. She has enjoyed meaningful collaborations in fields as disparate as fisheries ecology, cognitive neuroscience, and computer science.
More than anything, she focuses on helping scientists find the courage and language they need to create change within themselves, their institutions, and the world.
She put those experiences to work training thousands of scientists in science communication and storytelling. She has enjoyed meaningful collaborations in fields as disparate as fisheries ecology, cognitive neuroscience, and computer science.
More than anything, she focuses on helping scientists find the courage and language they need to create change within themselves, their institutions, and the world.
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AMBIKA KAMATH
FOUNDING MEMBER
Ambika worked as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist for over a decade, studying the social and ecological interactions of lizards, spiders, and more. She ran a lab, and developed a cutting edge cross-disciplinary research program melding feminist science studies with animal behavior science. She has also been a labor organizer, with UAW5810 at the University of California and United Campus Workers at the University of Colorado. But first and foremost, Ambika is a writer. Her essays have appeared at Catapult and BLInk magazine, and her first book (coauthored with Melina Packer) will be published by MIT Press in Spring 2025. All of her work embraces the fact that science is an inescapably human process—she sees this fact as an opportunity rather than a liability, both for how we do science and for how we communicate it.
