NeuroTransmit
Neuroscience Education for Everyone
Accessible
Neuroscience education delivered in conversational language—for all people, including those historically underserved by the institution of science.
Accurate
Neuroscience research that is vetted for rigor, robustness, and reputability and filtered of pop-Neuro fads and pseudoscientific explainers
Applicable
Online courses that are developed with specific audience interests at the forefront of the curriculum design.
Meet Our Team
Amy Braun, Ph.D.
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co-Founder of NeuroTransmit, neuroscientist, educator
Amy Braun (she/her and they/them) grew up in Rochester, NY and now lives in San Francisco on Ramaytush Ohlone land. Amy earned her Ph.D. in Neurosciences from Stanford studying the way that the fetal brain puts itself together during gestation and how the environment influences its development via the placenta. She is currently a visiting faculty with Saint Mary’s College of California. She is passionate about maternal-fetal medicine, healthcare equity, and socially-engaged STEM education.
Racheli Wercberger, Ph.D.
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co-Founder of NeuroTransmit, neuroscientist, somatic therapy practitioner
Racheli Wercberger (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary, white Jewish somatic practitioner and former neuroscientist researcher currently practicing and living in San Francisco, California, on occupied Ramaytush-Ohlone land. Their work is grounded in feminist, harm reduction, and anti-oppressive frameworks and in the assumption that personal healing is necessary for collective healing. They are passionate about supporting folks to metabolize trauma, heal from attachment injuries, integrate experiences from expanded states of consciousness like psychedelics, and navigate queerness, gender, polyamory, spirituality, and grief. They received their doctorate in neuroscience from University of California San Francisco studying the neural circuitry of chronic pain and itch and completed a postdoctoral pedagogy fellowship with Stanford Introductory Studies where they taught classes on the intersection of science, philosophy, and society.
Ray Care, Ph.D.
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Director of Programs of NeuroTransmit, neuroscientist
Ray Care (they/she) currently works with graduate and postdoctoral scientists on issues of career and professional development. Her interest is in working with early-stage professionals who are navigating challenging and isolating systems of education and work. She finds joy in supporting people in a process of re-centering their needs and values within their work. Ray found their affinity for this work through their own PhD experience at the University of California, San Francisco, where they studied the ability of adult neural circuits in the retina to recover after input loss.
