Appendix B: Public Face of Science Steering Committee, Staff, and Data Advisors
Steering Committee
Richard A. Meserve, Cochair, Senior Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP; President Emeritus, Carnegie Institution for Science
Geneva Overholser, Cochair, Senior Fellow, Democracy Fund; former Director, USC Annenberg School of Journalism
Emilio Bizzi, Institute Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Geoffrey Cowan, University Professor, Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership, and Director of the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, University of Southern California
Ellen Futter, President, The American Museum of Natural History
Sylvester James Gates, Jr., Ford Foundation Professor of Physics and Affiliate Professor of Mathematics, Brown University
Robert M. Hauser, Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society; Vilas Research Professor and Samuel Stouffer Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rush D. Holt, Jr., Chief Executive Officer and Executive Publisher of Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication; Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; Program Director of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Harvard University
Nora S. Newcombe, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Temple University
Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor, Special Advisor to the President, and Director of the Future of Scholarly Knowledge Project, Columbia University
Rebecca W. Rimel, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Cristián Samper, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wildlife Conservation Society; former Director, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Samuel O. Thier, Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School; President Emeritus, Brandeis University; former President, Massachusetts General Hospital; former President, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
Perceptions of Science in America Data Advisors
Cary Funk, Pew Research Center
Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan
Matthew C. Nisbet, Northeastern University
Project Staff
John Randell
Erica Palma Kimmerling
Alison Leaf
Keerthi Shetty
Shalin Jyotishi