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I love adventure, travel, hiking, architecture, getting out of my comfort zone and pushing my personal peak.

helping students become passionate, poised, and confident speakers in a variety of venues. I particularly enjoy helping students understand how the legislative process works.

simplicity, sustainability, natural world, appropriate technology

Big History! The idea of a modern creation story that embraces the whole of time, helps us see our place in the universe, and is based on the best of modern scientific knowledge.

Sharing the joy of discovery of exoplanets with everyone. We're finding whole new worlds! We're populating the voids around us with colour and structure and possibility. We think the Galaxy has billions of planets in it. I love using the discovery of planets as a gateway to talking about the underlying physics problems we're trying to solve, and to nurture excitement and trust and science literacy in the audience. I'm also excited to bring science discovery to the people, through citizen science. You can find your OWN planet! With a few minutes and an internet connection, you can be helping search through the huge amounts of data coming down from NASA's space telescopes. And then I get to include you on the discovery paper! (You don't get to name it, I'm sorry. But you can nickname it whatever you like!). I'm also very drawn into exploring what it means to humankind to be discovering exoplanets. What would it mean to find Earth 2.0? Would it change your life to know that there was life out there, in the Galaxy? What is the more terrifying prospect - that we are alone? Or that we aren't? Finally, I'm passionate about making the astronomy community a more inclusive, more supportive, better place for everyone, including historically marginalized and minoritized people.

Travelling and exploring new places. Experiencing beautiful things - nature, art, dance, writing. Reading and learning. Supporting other women in media and tech.

Female progression, comedy, LGBTQ+ allyship, learning about history and politics, yoga, colour, Italy, connecting people and connecting with people.