Speaking
I speak to corporate leadership teams, conferences, and boards about science literacy, misinformation, and what it actually takes to lead people across a genuine belief gap, because I've lived on both sides of one.
2025–2026 marks 100 years since the Scopes Trial, a timely hook for any audience thinking about where the evolution-education fight stands now.
Signature topics
How the erosion of science literacy shows up in your workforce, your customers, and your public trust, and what leaders can do before it reaches your organization.
Lessons from a career spent moving between a creationist upbringing and a career defending evolution education: a working model for leading across genuine conviction gaps.
What's actually happening in U.S. classrooms around evolution and climate education, and why it matters to any organization that hires scientists, engineers, or informed citizens.
Marking 100 years since the Scopes Trial, this talk traces the throughline from a 1925 Tennessee courtroom to today's misinformation landscape, and what it means for any institution defending evidence-based decisions.
A practical session on persuasion and trust-building drawn from decades of evolution-education advocacy in some of the most resistant audiences in the country.
Audience fit
Executive teams navigating internal disagreement, culture change, or public trust challenges.
Innovation, education, science communication, and civic-engagement programming, including SXSW-style crossover audiences.
Briefings for boards and philanthropic partners evaluating investment in science education and public trust.
Selected past engagements
Invited address, Binghamton University Evolutionary Studies Program, Binghamton, NY.
K.D. Nelson Lecture Series, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Invited address, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Spencer Mass Memorial Lecture, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY.
Keynote address, Association for Science Teacher Education International Conference, Long Beach, CA.
Invited address, Samford University, Birmingham, AL.
Invited highlighted address, National Association of Biology Teachers National Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Invited address, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, GA.
Award keynote address, NABT University Luncheon, National Association of Biology Teachers National Conference, Baltimore, MD.
Invited address, University of Texas at Tyler Darwin Week, Tyler, TX.
Invited address hosted by Qrious, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (SMNH), Washington, D.C.
Invited address, Museum of Natural Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
3rd Annual Darwin Day Lectures Program, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
Macroscope video profile, NPR's Science Friday, filmed in Jacksonville, AL, while teaching high school science.
Panel discussion, Science Friday Education.
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