Amanda Schochet
Amanda Schochet is an award-winning science communicator who co-founded MICRO in 2016.
MICRO’s mission is to provide equal access to fundamental knowledge by creating a fleet of six-foot-tall science museums that go to the places where people live their daily lives. From Rockefeller Center to public hospitals, MICRO’s distributed museum has reached over 400,000 visitors across NYC, and recently began expanding to more states.
Before MICRO, Amanda was a computational ecologist, using machine learning techniques for public health with NASA and for policy decisions on manufacturing with USAID.
Amanda is pursuing a more equal future built on better information, and believes that we need to work together strategically to reach this reality.
You can hear more in her TED talk, on Science Friday, or during an impromptu ecology tour in your local park.