Keisha Bahr earned her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and is currently an Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. Over the past decade, she has experienced several coral bleaching events and watched entire reefs die. After traditional methods of science communication (i.e., publications) failed to create change, she quickly realized that the future of our coral reefs relies on the scientific community's ability to communicate with the public. But many graduate students and researchers lack effective communication training. Therefore, she has been on a conquest to improve communications in science to increase the effectiveness of the management of our coral reef ecosystems.
