Darlene Cavalier

Darlene Cavalier is a professor of practice at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society. Cavalier is the founder of SciStarter, founder of Science Cheerleaders, and cofounder of ECAST: Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology. She is a founding board member of the Citizen Science Association, an advisor and Fellow at National Geographic, a member of the EPA’s National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology and she was recently appointed to the National Academy of Sciences “Designing Citizen Science to Support Science Learning” committee.  She is the co-editor of The Rightful Place of Science, author of The Science of Cheerleading,  and co-author of The Field Guide to Citizen Science. She resides in Philadelphia, PA with her husband and their four children.