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Jen Hassum is executive director of the Broadbent Institute. In the last two decades, Jen Hassum led teams at the municipal, provincial and national levels. She is recognized as an innovator in building an online community and mobilizing users to real-world action. Most recently, as the publisher of PressProgress, she helped oversee its growth into an award-winning national

Jen Schmidt is a science writer and editor based in California. She is a former AAAS Mass Media Fellow and holds a PhD in earth science. She studied rocks around the world before finding a home in science writing. Her work has also appeared in Eos and Science News.