“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”

- Carl Sagan

About SciComm

SciComm Services, Inc., is a full-service science communications consulting firm. We develop strategies and content to elevate, amplify, and explain the work of scientists working across a variety of areas — including biotechnology, neuroscience, immunology, chemistry, computer science, and the geosciences.

We work with scientific institutions, foundations, and societies; sci-tech start-ups; VC funds; and academic research groups. We help groups grow and meet their development goals.

Led by Lisa M.P. Munoz, our team includes talented creative professionals from around the world with expertise in web development, videography and video editing, graphic design, public relations, and social media.

Services

Content development and marketing

  • Websites, front- and back-end
  • Videos
  • White papers
  • Blogs
  • Social media
  • Decks and speeches

Consulting

  • Speaking and workshops about diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in science
  • Strategic planning
  • Core messaging and branding
  • Project management
  • Executive coaching for media interviews, public speaking, and communications
  • Crisis communications

Public Relations

  • Story development and placement
  • Press releases: drafting, distribution, and placement
  • Relationship-building with journalists
  • Press kits

Special projects

  • Book author - author of Women in Science Now
  • Scientific exhibits
  • Booklets
  • Analyses of existing communications, including social influence networks and audience receptivity

Clients

Here are some current and past clients:

Portfolio

About the Founder

As president and founder of SciComm Services, Inc., Lisa M.P. Munoz develops, leads, and executes communication strategies for science groups. She has more than 20 years of experience translating complex science into digestible stories for broad audiences. Lisa has extensive experience developing, writing, editing, and placing Op-eds and articles in high-profile publications, such as the New York Times, USA Today, and Scientific American. She has created videos showcasing cutting-edge science, and has developed content for a European royal, a UN secretary general, and others.

Lisa’s expertise spans cognitive neuroscience and the behavioral sciences, synthetic biology, climate and energy, and the Earth sciences.  Lisa was publicist and outreach producer for the independent documentary film Picture a Scientist and has written a book about gender equity in science, published by Columbia University Press (October, 2023).

Lisa started her career in radio and then print journalism, as a reporter and then managing editor of Geotimes, a geoscience magazine. She is a former Press Officer for the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and former Chief of Staff and Communications Director for the OS Fund. Lisa has an engineering degree from Cornell University with a specialty in science writing.

Lisa lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and two daughters. She loves exploring new places, listening to radio in all forms, and consuming sci-fi/fantasy books and movies.

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