Teaching Science Communication: the 2024 Fulbright-Cottrell Workshop September 25-27, 2024

Kitty is an independent communication consultant and brings her real-life experience of working with clients into the classroom. She helps clients in higher education and in the non-profit sector with digital communications strategies using a mixture of online tools and social networking sites. She holds an M.S. in Communications from Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. She has worked in the industry for five years at a design and advertising agency, Communiqué Design & Marketing, serving as director of social and digital strategy. Previously she was on the project staff in the Citizen Science department at Cornell Lab of Ornithology where she launched social network platforms and fielded thousands of breeding bird biology questions. Kitty is a native Californian and completed her undergrad degree at Humboldt State University behind the Redwood Curtain in Northern California. She majored in Biology and Environmental Science.

Mark is an instructor in biology, science literacy, and science communication at Cornell University and conducts discipline-based education research. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in entomology and his two Master’s Degrees in ecology and in marketing in Hungary. He is a Faculty Fellow For Engaged Scholarship and a Fellow at the Carl Sagan Institute, where he leads the public engagement efforts. He conducts research in biology education, science communication, and public engagement.