Senior Staff

Ann Marie Cunningham, Executive Director Ann Marie is a best-selling science print journalist (Ryan White: My Own Story) and award-winning television producer who helped develop the PBS series Ghostwriter, CRO, Cyberchase, and Innovation. Among other broadcast projects, she has produced for Sesame Workshop (formerly Children’s Television Workshop), ABC, NBC, PBS, and New York Times Television. In 1979, she served on the staff of President Jimmy Carter’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. She is responsible for TalkingScience’s fundraising, project development, and outreach.

Danielle Dana, Director of Development Danielle is responsible for fundraising to ensure the continuation of the Science Friday Initiative programs. Danielle has an educational background in psychology, anthropology, and business and is originally from Northern California. Formerly, she served as the Director of Communications for the Leakey Foundation, a nonprofit committed to increasing scientific knowledge and public understanding of human origins. In 2003, Danielle established a nonprofit called the African Orphans Foundation that serves female children orphaned by AIDS, famine, war, and other misfortunes of life in Africa. Danielle is especially passionate about human evolution and science education advocacy, but is fascinated by all aspects of science.

Leslie Taylor is project manager at the Science Friday Initiative and editor of TalkingScience.org. She started out to be a scientist but discovered that writing about science is way more fun.