Meet the 2025 Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellows

Learn more about the 9 emerging scientists, changemakers, and storytellers joining us for the Jackson Wild Media Lab in Grand Teton National Park.

Media Lab is made possible through the support of our partners and sponsors, Day’s Edge Productions and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios.

Cinema cameras and lenses for the Jackson Wild Media Lab are provided by our partners at Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Visit our Media Lab page to find out more about the program and meet our instructors for 2025.

Moses Aubrey is endlessly passionate about urban wildlife and ecology. Growing up in LA, he didn’t realize that nature was in his own backyard. Now he is on a mission to photograph, film and document all forms of life from jumping spiders to Great Blue Herons to Grunion and much more! His video series "Have you seen Me?" aims to highlight urban biodiversity in LA and across the US. Currently, he is working as a freelancer and at NHMLAC in the Community Science dept as a coordinator for WILD LA programs and has loved bringing various communities out in Nature! | @average__moe

Molly Edwards is a science communicator and plant biologist. She recently earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she studied the weird and wonderful 3-D petals of columbine flowers. While in graduate school, she developed her YouTube channel and social media presence as ‘Science IRL’, where you can catch her climbing giant robots and sniffing stinky corpse flowers to show the world what being a scientist is like, in real life! She now works as a science communicator and educational media producer, collaborating with researchers across the globe to share their STEM stories. | @science_irl

Katherine Gomero is a conservation filmmaker with experience filming on land, in the air, and at sea. As a Video Producer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, she works across camera operation, producing, and editing for short-form content. While her roots are in marine conservation and underwater filmmaking, her work now spans WCS’s New York City zoos and aquariums and reaches international field stations around the globe. Born in Peru and raised between Peru and New York City, Katherine’s personal projects have focused on indigenous human rights issues and marine advocacy through filmmaking, activism, and political awareness. | @kathisinha.g

Sumeet Kulkarni is an astrophysicist turned science writer, and an amateur astrophotographer. Through this hobby, he loves experiencing the nighttime wilderness under pristine dark skies. His stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Times (via the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship), Nature Magazine, and Scientific American. He has also written and directed two videos for the science youtube channel ‘Veritasium’, and is excited to grow as a hands-on science filmmaker at the Jackson Wild Media Lab. | @the.sumeetsonian

Madi McKay is a marine biologist and science communicator combining art, science and story to connect people with the marine environment. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree - using drones to map and monitor bull kelp in Northern California, where the species has declined by over 90% in the past decade. She is passionate about making conservation and restoration topics fun and easy to understand with educational videos shared through social media. She has cultivated a following of over 1 million curious learners and ocean stewards, and can’t wait to learn more about environmental filmmaking with Jackson Wild! | @its_mad_science

Dan Mele is a former coral biologist turned filmmaker and photographer based in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He specializes in underwater imagery, using visual storytelling to help bridge the gap between scientists, community members, students, and policymakers. Dan's mission is to reshape perceptions of science and the scientists themselves, steering away from lab-centric stereotypes. An emerging league member of the International League of Conservation Photographers and TEDx speaker, Dan’s work has contributed to Emmy-nominated and Telly Award–winning films. | @dan_mele_photography

Alyssa J. Sargent is a PhD candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Washington, where she's a part of the Behavioral Ecophysics Lab. In her current work, she studies the swashbuckling, drama-packed lives of hummingbirds in Colombia. Alyssa loves to come up with creative ways to share her research with people—including a bilingual board game, “Hummingbird Sugar Rush” (“Fiebre de Azúcar en Colibríes”)—to teach people about the decisions hummingbirds must make every day. Throughout her career, she's studied birds in Australia, Portugal, Ecuador, Canada, Puerto Rico, and numerous states. | @the.bird.girl

Daniel Shaykevich is a biologist and filmmaker. In 2024, he earned his PhD from Stanford University, where he studied navigation behaviors in amphibians. Alongside his field and laboratory research, Daniel makes films that portray the scientific process, and has directed, shot, and edited several documentaries and science communication videos. Now, as a postdoctoral scholar at the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, he continues to explore animal behavior and tell stories about the value of scientific research and the people working to better understand nature. | @dshakey96

Vishal Subramanyan is an award-winning wildlife photographer, videographer, and National Geographic Young Explorer. As a freelance storyteller, he partners with leading conservation organizations in California and beyond to create stories that inspire deeper connections between people and nature. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2024 with degrees in ecology and statistics. His work has been featured by National Geographic, CNN, NPR, Smithsonian, and the LA Times, and has won prestigious awards,including Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Through his work, Vishal shares compelling wildlife stories that spark curiosity and drive conservation action. | @vishalsubramanyan