Space Conference Speaker

Benjamin Dickow is the President and Executive Director of the Columbia Memorial Space Center, a space museum and science learning center located in Downey, California, on the site where the Apollo capsules and Space Shuttle were designed and built. He also serves as the City’s Library Director. Mr. Dickow’s work is informed by nearly 30 years of experience in science education. He has served in major museums in cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles; as the Creative Director at a major museum design firm; as a Director for a resource center of the National Science Foundation; and also as a consultant, developing science and children’s museum experiences and leading master planning initiatives for national organizations. Ben holds a degree from the University of Chicago and has been fortunate to be able to use a number of different media to engage the public with science including exhibits, print, the web and as an on-air correspondent for the PBS television program “Wired Science.” In 2008, Ben founded the community-based Westside Science Club, which worked to bring interactive science experiences to underserved youth in LA. Recently, he founded the LA STEM Collective, a new organization to integrate and make more accessible all of the out-of-school time STEM resources in Greater Los Angeles.