Steering committee

    *the six co-founders

 

Vern Ehlers (co-chair),  Republican congressman from Michigan

 

Rush Holt (co-chair), Democratic congressman from New Jersey

 

Norm Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin; former Undersecretary of the Army

 

Arne Carlson,  former Republican Governor of Minnesota; former chairman of American Express Funds board

 

*Matthew Chapman, screenwriter, director, science writer; President of Science Debate, Inc.

 

*Austin Dacey, contributing editor, The Skeptical Inquirer magazine

    

Calvin DeWitt,  President, Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists

 

James Jensen, Director of Congressional and Government Affairs, The National Academies

 

*Sheril Kirshenbaum, marine biologist,  Duke University

 

*Lawrence Krauss, Professor of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics, Arizona State University

 

Alan Leshner, CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science magazine 

 

James McCarthy, President-elect, AAAS; board member, Union of Concerned Scientists; Professor of Oceanography, Harvard University

 

*Chris Mooney, science writer and science blogger, The Intersection

 

*Shawn Lawrence Otto, screenwriter/director/producer; political consultant; entrepreneur; CEO of Science Debate, Inc.

 

John Rennie, Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American magazine

 

Deborah Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness 

 

 

2009 Additions

The following steering committee members were added at the January 2009 meeting:

 

Darlene Cavalier, Founder, ScienceCheerleader.com

 

Ira Flatow, Producer and Host of Science Friday on NPR's Talk of the Nation

 

David Guston, Co-Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University

 

Angie McQuaig, Director, Camp Inquiry, Center for Inquiry

 

 

  *the six co-founders