Board President at Explore Mars & Founder of Janet’s Planet
Janet Ivey-Duensing, is host of the award-winning Janet’s Planet, a public television science series for children. A cheerful, energetic, creative voice for STEM education, Janet constantly seeks new opportunities to engage people in her love for science.
Janet is an advocate, educator, communicator, and female role model of STEM/STEAM and is committed to sharing the joy of exploration and discovery with children around the globe. Janet’s mission is to encourage science literacy globally and particularly to embody the role of female science mentor for the next generation of women in space and science.
Ivey-Duensing is also writing a series of books called Unsung Genius Letter to My Genius Self, which celebrates lesser-known scientists, especially women and other minorities. The first in the series was Mary Anning: Daring to Dig about the famed woman paleontologist. Written in cooperation with author Loretta Hall and aviation pioneer Wally Funk, this second book, Wally Funk: Higher Faster Longer, takes the series to the skies and beyond.
Janet lives by a lake outside Nashville with her husband and her dogs.