For those of you planning to host your own poster parties, please see this March for Science Mobile Sign Making Guide we’ve put together based on materials distributed by national march leadership. Lots of slogan ideas!

Tom Ward is chair of the History Department at Spring Hill College where he teaches a variety of courses in American history, including American Environmental History. A native of Annapolis, Maryland, Dr. Ward received his education at Hampden-Sydney College (B.A., 1991), Clemson University (M.A., 1993), and the University of Southern Mississippi (Ph.D., 1999). He has written a number of articles on African-American history and the history of medicine, including Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South (University of Arkansas Press, 2003), and his most recent work, Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and its War on Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2017). He has also served for a number of years on the board of the Alabama Coastal Foundation, which is dedicated to improving and protecting Alabama’s coastal environment through cooperation, education, and participation, including four years as board president.

After our event concludes at noon on the 22nd, you can make your way across the bay to the Earth Day festivities in Fairhope! Earth Day Mobile Bay continues until 6pm with earth-friendly exhibitors, live music, an environmental film fest, and more. Admission is FREE! Check their website and event page for a complete schedule of activities.

March for Science Mobile will be Facebook Live Streaming our event at Earth Day Mobile Bay, so if you can’t join us in Mobile, try stopping by our booth to take a look. After the March, we’ll have volunteers there to talk about the March for Science mission.

Kristina Mullins joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District as the Chief of Staff in August 2013. She also serves as the Program Manager for the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa Rivers basin and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers basin. She has a B.S. in chemical engineering from Oklahoma State University, and began her career with Naval Facilities Engineering Command as an environmental engineer working with large SUPERFUND remediation sites in southern California and western Arizona. During her subsequent career with the Corps, she has managed large military construction projects in Europe, provided expertise and resources as part of the theater engineer planning for Operation Iraqi Freedom, served as the Deputy District Engineer for Project Management in Afghanistan, and oversaw construction of two USACE designated MEGA-projects in the Sacramento District with a construction value of over $2,000,000,000.

Science marchers, since you’ll already be downtown after the event, you can take advantage of this special Earth Day promotion from the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center. They’re offering a $10 admission-and-IMAX combo on Saturday, April 22, and will have some fun Earth Day activities going on there. Tell them you attended the March for Science so they know you heard about it from us!