Cara Santa Maria
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Cara Louise Santa Maria October 19, 1983 Plano, Texas, U.S. |
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| Residence | Los Angeles, California | ||
| Alma mater | University of North Texas (B.S., M.S.) | ||
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Science communicator, producer, journalist, podcaster, television host, neuroscientist
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Science communicator, producer, journalist, podcaster, television host, neuroscientist
Cara Louise Santa Maria (born October 19, 1983) is an American science communicator, journalist, producer, television host, and podcaster.
Santa Maria wrote her first blog for The Huffington Post in March 2010 before joining the publication as its founding science correspondent and host of the Talk Nerdy to Me web series from October 2011 until April 2013. She also co-hosted Take Part Live with Jacob Soboroff on Pivot TV from August 1, 2013 until April 17, 2014. She officially joined the online political and social commentary program The Young Turks as an occasional panelist in May 2013.
She currently hosts her podcast Talk Nerdy and co-hosts the The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast, and was a co-host of TechKnow on Al Jazeera America.
Santa Maria was born and raised in Plano, Texas, the younger of two daughters. Her parents, a school teacher and an engineer, both came from Catholic families and converted to Mormonism together as adults, raising their children in the religion, and for a while she attended church daily before classes. Years after her parents divorced, Santa Maria left the LDS church at 14 and came out as an atheist. Through her father's remarriage, she has adoptive twin stepsisters, in addition to three half-brothers, who were also adopted. Her ancestry is English,Puerto Rican and Italian. Santa Maria worked various jobs as a teenager, including being employed at a head shop, a bakery, CiCi's Pizza, as well as in retail. In her youth, she was also involved in gymnastics.
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