This interactive professional development program, led by Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, will provide participants with guided opportunities to practice and apply new and/or improved strategies to craft and deliver clear, impactful, science-based communication. Alda-certified instructors will work participants to develop and adapt audience-specific messages using the Center’s proprietary tools and techniques.

Merging theory and practice, participants learn how to design high-impact data visualizations. Building on this new-found skill, attendees begin writing their narrative using storyboarding and other techniques to explain data insights and engage audiences. When the essential elements of data, visuals, and narrative are combined, your data story can drive evidence-based decision-making.

This workshop, led by scholar-activist Dr. Della Mosley, is designed to provide a critical lens and the skills necessary to operationalize wellness and liberation and disrupt spaces that continue to create oppression, marginalization, and trauma for faculty, students, and staff at our institutions. Dr. Mosely utilizes her expertise and training in advancing radical healing and hope to create open and healthy spaces for all people.