Natasha Mitchell

Natasha Mitchell hosts ABC Radio National’s BIG IDEAS, was founder and host of the blockbuster radio show and one of the ABC’s first podcasts All in the Mind, Science Friction, and host of Life Matters. Natasha served on the board of World Federation of Science Journalists and with the Science Journalists Association of Australia. Her journalism has received international accolades, including the Grand Prize and four Gold World Medals at the New York Radio Festivals, and a prestigious MIT Knight Journalism Fellowship. Natasha quit an engineering PhD to run away with a (science) circus for her postgraduate diploma in science communication. She’s hosted four science dialogues with the Dalai Lama.