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The Science Sandbox Advisory Board reacts to the team’s mission
To help forge thoughtful partnerships with organizations that push meaningful science engagement forward, Science Sandbox seeks guidance from an eclectic and esteemed team of advisors who are visionaries across a wide spectrum of expertise.
In May 2017, the Science Sandbox team gathered members of their advisory board, and asked them to consider questions such as, “What does it mean to think like a scientist,” and “How can scientific thinking be used as a tool to make decisions?”
Watch more short takes from the meeting and meet other advisory board members here.
Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist and writer who has been widely described as one of the most original voices of her generation. Her most recent book is The First Bad Man, a novel. July’s collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in 23 countries. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Caméra d’or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
