Dear Rockefeller community,
WISeR and RIGS are excited to host scientist and comedian Sarah Adelman, MPH for a special science-communication keynote + comedy workshop on Wednesday, November 19, 2025.
1:30 pm – Keynote + Q&A
2:30 pm – Comedy Workshop (limited capacity — RSVP required)
Please RSVP for the sessions you’ll attend — workshop seats are limited and filling fast. Please only RSVP for the workshop if you are committed to attending the full 1.5 hrs.
More about Sarah here:
Sarah Adelman is an award-winning writer, touring stand-up comic, research scientist, and science communicator. She graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and earned her Master of Public Health from Columbia University where she studied maternal child health disparities. Following Columbia, Sarah trained for two years as a Research Scientist at NYU Langone, where she led human subjects trials and authored papers in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including a first-author paper in Human Reproduction that was featured in Scientific American and USA Today. Sarah has also written for Nautilus Science Magazine, National Geographic, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Rita Allen Foundation, and Carnegie Science, among others.
After leaving Academia in 2022, Sarah landed a year-long residency at Ars Nova theater, whose alumni include Lin Manual Miranda and Jesse Eisenberg. As a comedian, Sarah tours nationally with her one-woman show EGG, about her time as a fertility scientist, which The New York Times praised as a “charming coming-of-age stand-up show.” She performs as a stand up comic nightly across NYC. She is also a screenwriter and actor; her award-winning short film BUSTED!, set in a sperm bank, has screened at multiple Oscar-qualifying festivals and won the audience award at SeriesFest in Denver. The short explores how Sarah's scientific research collided with her work as a comic.
We hope to see you there!
Best,
WISeR & RIGS
