Staff

Jill Blackford joined the Simons Foundation in January 2017 as senior program associate in the Education & Outreach program. Prior to joining the foundation, Blackford was grants program manager at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

For over 15 years, Greg Boustead has brought sophisticated science content to broad audiences across many platforms — including writing, video and live events. He joined the Simons Foundation in 2012 as community manager for Spectrum. In 2015, he moved to the foundation’s Education…

Sam Riviello joined the Science Sandbox team in 2016, providing organizational support to the director and program team. Before joining the foundation, Riviello worked at EngenderHealth as executive office coordinator, serving as the liaison to the board of directors and offering strategic…

John Tracey joined the Simons Foundation in 2014 to study how to improve public engagement with science. In addition to providing program development support, he helps manage external communications. Prior to joining the foundation, Tracey was a program assistant at the American…