How Julia Minson helps people disagree better Ballroom dancing may seem an unlikely setting for lessons in psychology, but as a graduate student studying disagreement, Julia Minson drew on…

Angélica Valdés Valderrama helps community leaders transform local challenges into sustainable solutions When power or water fails at her home in Puerto Rico—a frustratingly common occurrence—Angélica Valdés Valderrama knows exactly where…

How Shannon Dosemagen is working toward systems change When the BP oil spill devastated the Gulf Coast in 2010, Shannon Dosemagen had a front-row seat to the disaster as…

Civic Science Fellow Lisa Maillard works to help funders support more effective community-engaged research When Lisa Maillard and her colleagues walked into a municipal building in Florida, ready to…

Civic Science Fellow Eunice Mercado-Lara Turns Open-Science Talk into Action Applying for funding can be a time-consuming, opaque process that presents barriers for some applicants, particularly smaller, under-resourced organizations.

How Rose Hendricks transforms language into climate action At the Planetary Health Action Fair in San Francisco this fall, Rose Hendricks moved between twenty poster presentations, each one a…

Civic Science Fellow Erica Palma Kimmerling fosters connections to strengthen science’s relationship with society As an undergraduate studying biomedical engineering, Erica Palma Kimmerling signed up for a gene editing…

Civic Science Fellow Jyoti Madhusoodanan investigates harmful biases in healthcare algorithms  While interviewing a scientist for a freelance story in 2018, science journalist Jyoti Madhusoodanan…

Catherine Devine (CSF 2024-25) shares reflections from the 2024 Media Impact JFunders annual meeting in San Francisco: My first encounter with journalism was with my town’s Hometown Weekly—a modest paper…

To open the October issue of the Civic Science Series, we invited Jylana Sheats (CSF 2021-23), Associate Director of the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program, to share insights…