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David Schleifer researches and writes about healthcare, food, technology and education. His work has been published in venues including Social Studies of Science, PLOS ONE, Post Road and online at n +1.

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Alison Fairbrother is the Executive Director of the Public Trust Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that investigates and reports on misrepresentations of science by corporations, government, and the media.

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Allison Marsh is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina where she supervises the museums and material culture track of the public history program. Trained as a historian of technology, her research focuses on how the general public comes to understand complex engineering ideas through informal educational.

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Lizzie Wade is the Latin America correspondent for Science magazine. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Aeon, and Slate, among other publications. She lives in Mexico City.

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Molly Bain is a writer, teacher, and performer, and is currently working on her second Master's degree, an MFA in nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Niki Vermeulen specializes in science and innovation policy and the organization of research, with an emphasis on scientific collaboration in the life sciences.

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Jill Sisson Quinn is the author of Deranged: Finding a Sense of Place in the Landscape and in the Lifespan.

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Ramya Rajagopalan is a sociologist of science, technology and medicine, and research fellow at the Life Sciences Foundation.

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Joon-Ho Yu is a bioethicist and social scientist, focusing on translational genomics and genetic technologies.

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Maria Delaney is an Irish science and health journalist, and an award-winning science blogger.

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Emily Fertig is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. The focus of her research is the economics of wind power integration, using both large-scale energy storage and interconnection of geographically dispersed wind sites.

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In previous lives Brian Kahn led sleigh ride tours through a herd of 7000 elk, guided tourists around the deepest lake in the United States, and blogged about climate change from the back of his Subaru.

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Roberta Chevrette, M.A. is a doctoral student in Communication at Arizona State University.

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Angela Records, PhD, is a Policy Fellow with the American Phytopathological Society, and she works as a science consultant for Eversole Associates, a small science and technology consulting firm.