Darlene Cavalier is a senior advisor and contributor to Discover Magazine. She is on the ScienceDebate steering committee and is the founder of ScienceCheerleader.com (a popular blog that advocates for increased adult science literacy and public involvement in science and science policy). Cavalier is part of a small team organizing an effort to open a participatory, technology assessment office, one that reports to Congress. Cavalier held executive positions at Walt Disney Publishing and worked at Discover Magazine for more than a decade. She was the principal investigator of a National Science Foundation grant applied to promote basic research through partnerships with Disney and ABC TV. Cavalier is developing a major multi-functional Web site that will encourage and enable lay people to learn about, participate in, and contribute to science through existing recreational activities as well as formal research.