Join us in LA for four true, personal stories about science-related setbacks in a secret-park like backyard.
Note: Limited seating will be available for those with accessibility needs. Otherwise, bring your own blanket or beach chair for this outdoor ✨ show beneath the stars ✨
Hosted by Bryan Kett and Leslie Berntsen
Stories by:
Dr. Jessie Christiansen is an astrophysicist with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, where she searches for, characterises and catalogues planets orbiting other stars. She is the lead scientist on the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and has worked on the NASA Kepler, K2, and now TESS missions to characterize the demographics of exoplanets, and to find and study the nearest planetary systems to Earth – systems that will be perfect for further study with the next generation of ground- and space-based telescopes. Originally from Australia, she now lives in LA with her husband, seven-year-old twins and three cats, including the aging grande dame (also from Australia!) and two pandemic rescue kittens.
David Crabb is a writer, actor and storyteller in Los Angeles. He’s a member of The Groundlings Sunday Company and author of the memoir Bad Kid, based on his New York Times Critics’ Pick solo show of the same name. David is a host of The Moth and RISK! LA. He's a professor of autobiographical storytelling at Occidental College and has directed & taught storytelling in the US, Australia, Ireland and Canada.
Cara Lopez Lee is the author of the memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands (Bower House). She’s a winner of The Moth StorySLAM and performs in many storytelling shows, including Unheard L.A., Strong Words, and Storytellers Project. Her writing appears in such publications as Los Angeles Times, Manifest-Station, and Writing for Peace. She’s a traveler, swing dancer, and baker of pies. Cara and her husband live in the beach-town of Ventura, California, where they enjoy tending their Certified Wildlife Habitat full of hummingbirds.
Jaclyn Siegel, PhD, is a postdoctoral research scholar at San Diego State University, where she works as the project director of the PRIDE Body Project, an NIH-funded eating disorders prevention program for sexual minority men. Jaclyn holds a PhD in social psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on body image, gender, and sexuality, primarily as they relate to everyday life, including the workplace and romantic relationships.