Ms. Mary Dussault is a Learning Designer and Program Manager in the Science Education Department at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, where she works with a team of talented educators, scientists, and media and technology developers. She has spent her career researching and developing science learning experiences for a variety of settings: designed exhibit spaces and informal learning environments for the classroom, online, and teacher professional development programs. Her work focuses on translating educational research into practice: using what we know about how people learn and what motivates STEM interest and identity to design powerful and effective learning experiences.

Dr. Martha Irene Saladino is an Education & Outreach Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Martha Irene obtained her PhD in Astrophysics at Radboud University in the Netherlands, where she developed numerical simulations of evolved Sun-like double stars. Her passions are to make scientific content accessible to non-English speaking audiences, engage underrepresented groups in science, make visible the work of underrepresented groups in science, and show the diversity of people in astronomy as a means to create role models.