KC Cole is currently a visiting scholar-in-residence at the Annenberg Public Policy School at UPenn. Previously, she was a writer-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Study. An Emerita Professor at the Annenberg School of Journalism, she is the author of eight nonfiction books, most recently Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up—a memoir/biography of her late mentor, founder of the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s world-renowned “museum of awareness.” A former science correspondent and columnist at the Los Angeles Times, she’s written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, Smithsonian, Columbia Journalism Review, Newsweek, Esquire, Ms., the Washington Post, and many other publications. For 15 years, she hosted an irregular series of events exploring the intersection of art, science, politics, whatnot. Known as Categorically Not! the events took place at Santa Monica Art Studios, USC and the Institute for Advanced Study.