Making Science Relevant: How Risk and Urgency Motivate Community Learning

Rachel Hogan Carr is the Executive Director of the Nurture Nature Center in Easton and currently serves as this year’s Dyer Center Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Ms. Carr brings a wealth of experience in making science resonate with the public. As leader of the Nurture Nature Center and a key contributor to nationally recognized flood risk communication campaigns, she has dedicated her career to ensuring science is accessible, relevant, and responsive to community needs. Her work draws on focus groups and public feedback to shape messages that inform, engage, and inspire action. In this session, Ms. Carr will share practical, powerful strategies for connecting meaningfully across diverse perspectives—tools you can use to make your own work matter more to the audiences you most want to reach.

This presentation is part of the series Forging Connections: Championing Science, Learning, and Higher Ed Through Effective Communication.