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Stacey Johnson is the editor of Signals and a contributor. For 25 years, Stacey has been providing strategic communications counsel to government, corporate, technology and health organizations. She began her career at the CTV Television Network and then moved to Hill & Knowlton Canada where she advised clients in a variety of industries and sectors. Stacey is the Vice President, Communications and Marketing for CCRM, a leader in developing and commercializing regenerative medicine-based technologies and cell and gene therapies. She has a Master's degree in Public Relations. You can follow her on Twitter @msstaceyerin.

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Right Turn: Keeping the conversation going following Black History Month

Author: Stacey Johnson, 03/03/23

Can you name 10 Black Canadians who have made significant contributions to life in Canada? That was a question posed by Vicki Olatundon, a motivational speaker, during a Black History Month presentation. (More on this later.) Here’s another question: what does Black representation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) look like in Canada? From […]

Right Turn: My “interview” with Joe Rogan

Author: Stacey Johnson, 02/17/23

In 2019 I wrote an open letter to Joe Rogan, asking him to be more judicious in how he discusses stem cells on his popular – 12.8 million subscribers – podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Much to my surprise, I didn’t hear back from Joe or his people although I tagged him on Twitter several […]

Right Turn: The sky’s the limit for women and girls in science

Author: Stacey Johnson, 02/11/23

Have you heard of Henrietta Leavitt, Annie Cannon and Williamina Fleming? They are to astronomy what Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson are to NASA and the space race. If the latter three names are familiar, you probably saw the movie Hidden Figures, or read the book upon which it is based: Hidden Figures: […]

Right Turn: Phacilitate’s Advanced Therapies Week 2023 offers “reasons to be cheerful”

Author: Stacey Johnson, 01/27/23

Last year saw the organizers behind Advanced Therapies Week (ATW) move the conference from Miami to Miami Beach to accommodate a larger audience. As the Covid-19 pandemic was still going strong in January 2022, making international travel more difficult, attendance was lower than anticipated. In fact, on-site testing resulted in some delegates being turned away […]

Right Turn: Signals’ Top 10 most popular blogs of 2022

Author: Stacey Johnson, 12/30/22

Last week bloggers Cal Strode and Tannen Horber shared their favourite blogs from the past year, and I wondered whether there would be any overlap in the Top 10 list below where the number of readers for each post dictates who makes the cut. The answer is “yes.” One of Cal’s favourites was the post […]