Amy Kostant

Amy Kostant, Executive Director of the Science Communication Network.

"Amy created SCN during her eight years as a program director at Environmental Media Services. She came to EMS after more than a dozen years of public education and mass communications experience. She served as public information specialist at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and as director of communications for Renew America. As executive director of the Rhode Island Film Commission, Amy headed a state agency that promoted the state as a filming location, working closely with government, film and television producers and the press. Prior to coming to EMS, she worked for the Children's Television Workshop (makers of "Sesame Street") and was consultant to a public health/social marketing firm using media to improve attitudes and behaviors around healthful eating."