Presenters

David Baron

David Baron is health and science editor for The World, a daily international news program co-produced by the BBC World Service, PRI, and WGBH in Boston.

Harvey Blanch

Dr. Harvey Blanch is the Merck Professor of Biochemical Engineering at the University of California Berkeley.

Gary Covino

Gary Covino has been a public radio producer, reporter, editor and program creator for more than 30 years.

Mary Hodder

Mary Hodder is vice president of products for Apisiphere, a Berkeley-based company that provides geolocation awareness services for mobile developers.

Brent Iverson

Dr. Brent Iverson is the Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and member of the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, at the University of Texas at Austin.

Henry Kaiser

Research diver, filmmaker and musician Henry Kaiser provided the inspiration for Warner Herzog’s Academy Award-nominated film, Encounters at the End of the World.

Daniel Kammen

Daniel Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering.

Andrea Kissack

Andrea Kissack is senior editor for QUEST radio and narrates the QUEST television program. Kissack was born in Los Angeles and discovered radio news through listening to her college radio station.

Arnold Kriegstein

Dr. Arnold Kriegstein is director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, and a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.

Sally Lehrman

Sally Lehrman is Santa Clara University's Knight Ridder-San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair in Journalism and the Public Interest. Also an independent journalist, Lehrman specializes in covering identity, race relations and gender within the context of medicine and science.

Doug Levy

Doug Levy is the director of communications and special assistant to the dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a lecturer in the UCSF Department of Family

Margo Melnicove

Margo Melnicove has been working in public broadcasting as a reporter, producer, editor, anchor, news manager and trainer for more than 30 years, and has been teaching journalism at the college level

Richard Muller

Dr. Richard Muller is known for his broad range of achievements in fields ranging from particle physics to geophysics, applied physics, astrophysics and physics education.

Tim Olson

Tim Olson oversees the digital media group and Education Network for Northern California Public Broadcasting.

Norm Penny

Dr. Norm Penny is the senior collections manager in the entomology department at the California Academy of Sciences.

Boyce Rensberger

Boyce Rensberger has been a science journalist since 1966 at the Detroit Free Press. In 2008 he retired after ten years as director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT.

Alison Richards

Award-winning science journalist Alison Richards is deputy supervising senior editor and a correspondent for NPR's Science Desk.

Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers is a managing editor of QUEST, KQED’s weekly science and environment program.

Brian Simison

Dr. Brian Simison is the curator of comparative genomics at the California Academy of Sciences.

Lauren Sommer

Lauren Sommer is a multimedia producer for QUEST, a multimedia series about the people behind San Francisco Bay Area science and environmental issues and how their work is changing the way we live.

Michael Starbird

Dr. Michael Starbird is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of UT’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He received his B.A.

Michal Strutin

Michal Strutin is the science subject specialist at the Santa Clara (California) University Library.

Laura Sydell

Laura Sydell is the arts and technology correspondent for the NPR newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition.

Spencer Weisbroth

Spencer Weisbroth is an attorney in San Francisco where he maintains a multi-disciplinary practice in association with the San Francisco-based firm of Stimmel, Stimmel & Smith, P.C., where he is Of Co

Loretta Williams

Loretta Williams is a managing editor and producer at SoundVision Productions. Williams has a deep history in public radio, working as an editor, producer, reporter and trainer.