Paula Croxson is a neuroscientist, award-winning science communicator, and storyteller. She is also the president of Stellate Communications, a firm that provides strategic communication services to scientists, nonprofits, and science-based organizations. She has a DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford and served as an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she still holds an adjunct position. Her work has been published in Nature Neuroscience, eLife, Science, and Neuron.