About me
Darcy J. Gentleman, Ph.D. (he/him), is an audiences first science communicator with over 15 years of experience helping ideas get talked about in rooms that speakers might never enter. He has run workshops and/or coached talks with The George Washington University’s Department of Chemistry, the University of Florida’s College of the Arts, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi – The Scientific Research Honor Society, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, the National Institutes of Health, and across the Smithsonian Institution. While working at the American Chemical Society from 2008-2018, he organized congressional policy briefings, developed a communications contest for younger scientists, including engagement at science museums, contributed to a YouTube series popularizing chemistry, and was the managing editor for Environmental Science & Technology and the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Darcy is an alumnus of The Banff Centre’s Science Communications program (2008) and attended the Summer Institute at The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science (2014). He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in analytical chemistry from Arizona State University (2003, 2001), funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute, and an Hon. B.Sc. in planetary science and also chemistry from the University of Toronto (1999).
