Dr. Pamela L. Gay

Senior Scientist, Astronomer

What you will learn:

• How to attract your target community members at events.
• Even homogeneous communities may still be different in terms of a lot of factors and you need to find your own niche.
• Celebrate diversity in the community by allowing everyone to be themselves.

Dr Pamela Gay is an astronomer, creative, and technologist using new media to engage people in learning and doing astronomy. She currently leads a small paid team that produces the award-winning Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts, as well as the Daily Space, which was recently picked up as a television show for NowMedia.tv. This content reaches an estimated 250,000 people a week. In 2018, she was inducted into the Podcast Hall of Fame, and she is currently a Patreon Ambassador.

All of these programmes are pulled together through the Cosmo Quest Community, a global community where people come together to learn and do science.