TYPE OF MENTOR SOUGHT:

Someone in education and outreach, or interpretation,
or visitor experience, or exhibit development, or even
public relations in a museum dedicated to science

AND/OR

Someone in the Cape Cod/Boston area who could help
guide me to opportunities and adventures in my new
home town

AND/OR

Someone who believes as do I that Bill Nye, the
Science Guy, is a Treasure


CONTACT ANTONIA BY EMAIL AT:
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MEET ANTONIA STEPHENS

PROFILE:

Name:       Antonia Stephens

Education:  BA 1993 (Dance/Biology) double major -
            Bennington College
            MSc 1997 (Biology) -
            Queen's University, Kingston, ON
            MMSt 2001 (Museum Studies) -
            University of Toronto

Current Location:  Cape Cod, MA, USA

Career Interests:

I am most interested in becoming involved in the
public education of science, especially, but not
limited to,  conservation and ecology issues.

I love making the connection for people between their
own lives and the research going on in the field or in
"ivory towers"--research they very often don't know
anything about.

Although I do not currently have a position, I have
been looking for jobs/internships in education and
outreach, interpretation, visitor experience, exhibit
development, even public relations--anywhere where I
will get an opportunity to lure the public in and show
them that science is, well, cool.  And interesting,
and necessary, and, most of all, inclusive--but we
have to make it that way.

Bill Nye the Science Guy is my personal god, but we
need a better representative for the zoological
sciences than the Crocodile Hunter (shudder)!

Why I need a mentor:

I was the only scientist in my programme at the
University of Toronto (30-odd students), and I had
difficulty finding a mentor who had the same interest
in science as I did (e.g., less about collections,
more about interpretation).  Most of the science
educators were in the education faculty, naturally.

What contacts I did make were left behind when I moved
to Cape Cod, and I have had to start all over again,
looking for work in a place with which I am quite
unfamiliar.

I wouldn't mind having someone who knows the
Boston/Cape area suggest to me some associations or
lecture series or anything else, for that matter, that
might get me involved.

I have offered my volunteer services to the Cape Cod
Museum of Natural History and The Nature Conservancy,
so I haven't been sitting on my hands, but I could
always use more advice.

Antonia D. Stephens
(508) 362-7998
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