Kaydren Orcutt (she/her) is a PhD candidate studying the fundamentals of light harvesting and energy transfer in the Physical Chemistry program at UC Berkeley. For more info see Research.

She is a Berkeley SciComm Fellow and will be giving public speaking and science storytelling workshops on campus starting Fall 2021. Kaydren was recently appointed as Director of Informal Science Communication for the NSF-funded Center for Synthesizing Quantum Coherence (CSQC). She has worked to combine her love of art and science to create digital comics and animations to accompany her science communication articles, to present complicated data in a new and engaging way. For latest work see SciComm.

Kaydren is also an active participant in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives, including the College of Chemistry Graduate Diversity Program (CCGDP), and is the president of the Women in Chemistry Initiative (WICI) at UC Berkeley. Kaydren led the effort to create the first Diversity statement for the Fleming Group at UC Berkeley, found here, and also was on the multi-institutional team that created the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement for the CSQC, found here.