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PODCAST | AAAS 2018 Live: Empowering Communities through Science

Holly Summers, a plant biologist and AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Department of Agriculture, speaks more with MónicaFeliú-Mójer.
Holly Summers
Mónica Feliú-Mójer giving a presentation.

Holly Summers, a plant biologist and AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Department of Agriculture, speaks more with MónicaFeliú-Mójer. Dr. Feliú-Mójeris a neurobiologist by training and director of communications and science outreach at Ciencia Puerto Rico, and associate director for diversity and communication training at iBiology. Here she discusses key events in her life that led her to pursue a career in science and to further seek out an opportunity with Ciencia Puerto Rico. Dr. Feliú-Mójer also discusses how empowering people through the scientific method and the use of critical thinking skills can help to create agents of change, which can dramatically impact how communities effectively deal with local problems.

 

Participants

Host: Holly Summers, Ph.D. Plant Biology
2017-2018 Executive Branch Fellow at the USDA

Mónica Feliú-Mójer, Ph.D., Neurobiology
Director of Communications & Science Outreach for Ciencia Puerto Rico;
Assoc. Director of Diversity & Communication Training for iBiology

Producer

Raleigh Martin, Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Science
2017-2018 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation 

Co-Director and Executive Producer

Carlos Faraco, Ph.D., Neuroscience
2016-2018 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Institute of Justice

Image: Courtesy of Mónica Feliú-Mójer

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Holly Summers

Summers, Holly: Fellowship 2017-2018 Summers, Holly: Fellowship 2018-2019
Holly Summers is a plant biologist with an interdisciplinary background in pollination biology. Her graduate work at Cornell focused on the interface of plant mating systems and plant/insect interactions through studies of floral development and scent. This research led to a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where she studied Petunia floral development and pollinator-driven speciation. She is currently placed with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services, Biotechnology Regulatory Services. Her work with BRS focuses on international collaboration, risk assessment, and regulatory process development.