Co-host,
Ingenious: The Evolution of Innovation

Susannah Carroll maintains stewardship of the museum’s 3-D objects, prints, photographs, and drawings, archives, Library, and Audio/Visual collections. She has worked with the museum’s collections since 2005, presenting research at various museum conferences, supporting the Institute on traveling exhibitions with management of artifacts from Italy, the Netherlands, Israel, and China, and exploring the Institute’s collections with museum guests. Susannah holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Museum Studies, and worked in historical houses in Germantown before coming to the Institute. Her favorite activities include wandering the Institute’s collections storage areas, curling up with a book and her cats, and visiting museums around the world.

Co-host,
Ingenious: The Evolution of Innovation

Trace Dominguez is a curiosity explorer, science communicator, producer, podcaster, and Emmy-nominated on-camera host. Trace produces and hosts Star Gazers: a television series about backyard astronomy that airs nationwide on PBS every week, and started a production company, Trace Elements Media where he creates and produces shows that explore diverse topics across the sciences, and was one of the creators and founders of Seeker, a multi-million subscriber digital media science brand.

Derrick Pitts
Co-host,
A Practical Guide to the Cosmos

Derrick is currently the Chief Astronomer and Director of the Fels Planetarium at The Franklin Institute. He’s also been a NASA Solar System Ambassador since 2009 and serves as the “Astrobiology Ambassador” for the NASA/MIRS/UNCF Special Program Corporation’s Astrobiology Partnership Program. He appears regularly in the media as a science content expert including appearances on the “Colbert Report” on Comedy Central and “The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on CBS.

Kalpana Pot
Co-host,
A Practical Guide to the Cosmos

Kalpana Pot is the youngest of three girls in a family full of doctors. Science and education were always of the utmost importance and value in her home. But performing arts was another passion for her, which is why she moved to LA to pursue acting after decades of dancing and singing. At the same time, Kalpana got to express her nerd love of astronomy by working weekends at Griffith Observatory. It was there that she found her love and skill in communicating science to people from all over the world. She is the host of space TikTok @TokNerdyToMe. Outside of work, Kalpana loves her dogs and volunteers for animal organizations.