"It never occurred to me to work in science communication" an interview with Laurie Cantillo

Recorded March 6, 2019 10:40 minutes
Id: APP618287

Description

Laurie Cantillo, the Deputy Director of Communications and Education at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talks about her journey to become a science communicator. She developed an interest in science at an early age spending time in the outdoors with her geologist father but never thought that she would work in science herself. After getting tired of working as a reporter covering bad news, she decided to join NASA.

She was excited to start helping scientists to share new discoveries and tell their stories. Sitting in the room as the first images were coming in from Pluto, she was the first person on Earth to write a headline about NASA's Pluto's about the heart on Pluto. Cantillo shares her advice for scientists trying to connect better with the public, and her sense of the power science has to equip citizens to have the facts they need to be engaged and informed. (Recorded 10 December 2018)

Participants

  • Laurie Cantillo
  • Sam Hendlund
  • AGU Narratives

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