Vaughan James

Observer
St. Pete Pride Parade
One of the big benefits is exposure, really what happens a lot is that you get scientists, science professionals that are interested, really genuinely in talking to the community, but I do not know how to do that. I don't know where they are. I intend to tweet about my research. And it's like, yeah, sure, that's fine. But why would anyone read that? So these community level events and saying that well, if you are interested, one way that you can reach people in your community is by going to where people in your community are, is a thing that sounds very simple, but people don't think about it that way. And so I think that that is a huge selling point for these types of events for people that are interested in getting what they do out there and connecting with the community, when they just honestly don't know how to do that.