Brooke Smith

Brooke is the Director of Public Engagement at The Kavli Foundation. Until late 2016, Brooke served as the first Executive Director of COMPASS, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering scientists to be effective communicators and to engage in the public discourse about the environment. Brooke's expertise and connections are rooted in science, science communication, public engagement of science, public policy, journalism, environment and conservation, organizational leadership, and fundraising. Her experiences stem from early work in the federal government, as a consultant to federal agencies, as a University-based communication professional, and for the last fifteen years, in the non-profit sector. She has an M.S. from Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences and a bachelor's degree from Duke University. Brooke is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on the Public Interfaces of Life Sciences and serves on the National Caucus for Environmental Legislators Board of Directors. She has served on the National Board of Directors for the Surfrider Foundation and Portland's Forest Park Conservancy, and was a Donella Meadows Fellow.

scientists. girl power. being outside. my daughters.

Support scientists to get out in the world and share their knowledge, insights and ideas

communication, engagement, environment, non profits, Science

The Kavli Foundation, in partnership with the Simons Foundation, is scoping a potential TED Institute to focus on science and its stories. This would be the first Institute supported by a foundation - would love your ideas!

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