Vivian Trakinski

As the director of Science Bulletins, the Museum's science exhibition and online program, Vivian Trakinski has overseen the production of more than 50 short documentaries about researchers working in all parts of the world, as well as an ongoing stream of Earth and space science visualizations.

For the Museum, she also wrote and produced an updated program for the Rose Center for Earth and Space's Hayden Big Bang Theater. Trakinski began her career at the Children's Television Workshop's award-winning PBS science series "3-2-1 CONTACT" and has since gone on to write, direct, and produce media for a variety of audiences and venues. Her credits include broadcast specials for HBO and ABC News, multimedia programs for educational publishers such as Scholastic, Inc., Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, and Prentice Hall, and medical education programing funded by the Human Genome Project on the ethics of genetic testing.

Her work has been recognized by the American Association of Museums, NSF Visualization Challenge, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, HD Fest, the Explorer's Club, and Banff New Media Institute, among others. She joined the Museum in 1999 and received her B.A. from Wesleyan University.

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