Brooke Smith

Brooke Smith is the Director, Science and Society at The Kavli Foundation, where she works to strengthen science’s relationship with society. Brooke is passionate ensuring science (the people, processes and products) are meaningfully connected with society, communities and people. At The Kavli Foundation, Brooke leads strategies that fund scholarship and practice at the interface of science and society and civic science (including, specifically with basic science), activities for publics to discuss ethical issues born from scientific discovery, engagement efforts of Kavli’s science partners, and projects that advance science policies to enable a thriving scientific enterprise. Her expertise and experiences are rooted in science, science communication, public engagement of science, public policy, science journalism and organizational leadership and development. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2018, Brooke served as the inaugural Executive Director of COMPASS, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to empowering scientists to be effective communicators and to engage in the public discourse about the environment. She has worked as a University-based communication professional for multi-campus scientific initiatives, as a consultant to foundations and non-profits, and with and for the federal government. She has served on multiple boards, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was a Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow.