David Sittenfeld is Manager of Forums and National Collaborations at the Museum of Science in Boston. In this work, David and his colleagues engage publics, policymakers, and scientists in conversations around emerging scientific and technological issues. In addition to overseeing the Museum’s Forum program, David regularly gives talks on topics in current science and technology at the Museum, delivers demonstrations in the exhibit halls, and manages special programs and exhibit projects. David leads national efforts such as the NSF-funded Building with Biology project, which facilitated conversations among public audiences and members of the synthetic biology community at over 200 informal science education sites around the United States including over 50 deliberative Forums on topics including mosquito engineering and human genome editing. David is a co-founder of the Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology Network, which will be organizing NIH-funded US deliberations on genome editing technologies as part of an upcoming global deliberation on genome editing that was recently highlighted in Science magazine.