Decades of Experience
As a writer, consultant, and trainer specializing in environmental, safety, and health risks, I have
- + Worked for more than 30 years in communicating complex scientific information to lay audiences
- + Pioneered risk communication as a communicator and research scientist at a major national laboratory
- + Developed the risk communication plan for the most sophisticated cancer cluster investigation in the nation's history
- + Wrote one of the first state-level risk communication plans for bioterrorism and other public health emergencies
- + Trained more than 2,000 scientists, engineers, public health professionals, and safety professionals in various aspects of risk communication
- + Conducted research on the mental models approach to risk communication
- + Earned a degree in scientific and technical communication from the University of Washington
- + Earned a certificate in regulatory analysis emphasizing environmental, safety, and health regulations from Harvard.
