Co-Directors of Decoding Ancestral Knowledge, Ruth Lichtman and Sharon Shattuck, along with SCL’s Executive Director Sarah Goodwin will accept their 2024 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award at the 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting.
See the press release from AAAS here:
“Independent panels of science journalists select the winners of the awards, which are administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and endowed by The Kavli Foundation. There is a Gold Award ($5,000) and Silver Award ($3,500) for each of the eight categories. The global awards program drew entries from 59 countries this year, 57 percent of them from international entrants.”
Excerpt about our award-winning film, Decoding Ancestral Knowledge:
“Janet Raloff, digital editor at Science News Explores called the winning entry ‘charming and thought-provoking’ and said it ‘illustrates how ancestral stories can inspire meaningful environmental research when local scientists are clever enough to read the patterns in nature from which those ancient stories were drawn.’
Ruth Lichtman and Sharon Shattuck commented: ‘We’re so honored to receive this award; we loved working with Kiana and the people of Kauluakalana and Paepae o He’eia to bring this story to life.'”
