Aaron Reedy PhD

Aaron Reedy PhD has over 18 years of work experience. From 2001 to 2006, they served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Vanuatu, where they taught Science, Health and English in a rural village school. Aaron also led projects to build a new school house, a 5000 gallon water catchment tank and an improved layer hen facility. Additionally, they managed a disaster relief fund for OxFam New Zealand to rebuild schools across the country damaged by Cyclone Ivy. From 2006 to 2012, Reedy worked as a Teacher/Biologist/Science Communicator in Chicago Public Schools. During this time, they pushed the standards for doing science in a high school classroom and the work of their students was published in the journal Behavioral Ecology. Aaron also advocated for science education, speaking at TED 2012, TED2013, TEDxSMU 2009, Teachers for Tomorrow and other national events. From 2012 to 2018, Reedy was a Graduate Fellow at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, University of Virginia. Their work focused on answering basic questions about evolution and communicating those findings to the public. From 2018 to the present, they have been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Their research uses molecular and mark-recapture methods to answer the question of why males and females have different lifespans through longitudinal study of wild and lab populations of Anolis lizards. Additionally, the NSF supports Reedy's efforts to broaden participation for groups under-represented in science through DataClassroom, a tool for statistics and data analysis that is built for classrooms and students in grades 6-12. Reedy is also a Cofounder and CEO of DataClassroom.

Aaron Reedy PhD obtained their PhD in Biology from the University of Virginia in 2018, specializing in Evolutionary Biology. Aaron began their studies in 2012.