Our Partners
Our partners, specialists in project design, program management, education, science content, fundraising, and communications, work on a project-specific basis to provide additional expertise.

Maggie Buchwald (Fundraising: major gifts, capital campaigns, board development) has over 25 years' experience in fundraising for the non-profit sector. Her specific expertise lies in board development, endowment and capital campaigns, major gift solicitation, and strategic planning. During her fund-raising career, Ms. Buchwald has held senior positions at some of New York's major cultural and educational institutions. She served American Ballet Theatre as director of its Golden Anniversary Campaign, and Thirteen/WNET as Director of Development, overseeing its capital campaign and securing annual revenues in excess of $5 million. Ms. Buchwald subsequently joined New York University Medical Center as Executive Director of its Capital Campaign. In this role she managed fundraising initiatives for a $325 million comprehensive campaign comprising capital and endowment gifts, as well as major gifts for current uses in both the NYU hospitals and its medical school. Ms. Buchwald graduated from Cornell University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is active in community service in New York, and is a board member of Dicapo Opera Theatre, and of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA. She is a past president of Women in Development, New York.

Hyman Field (Project design, informal learning, strategic partnerships) joined the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education at the National Science Foundation in 1990 and has served as a program officer, Section Head for the Informal Science Education Program, Acting Division Director, and Senior Advisor for Public Understanding of Research. His most recent efforts have been with projects designed to inform the public about current, on-going research in science, engineering, and technology. Prior to joining NSF, Dr. Field spent 10 years at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as Senior Program Officer with the Annenberg/CPB Project. There, he worked with such projects as “The Brain,” “Planet Earth,” “Voices & Visions,” “Ethics in America” with Fred Friendly, and “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age.” Before joining CPB, he was a producer/director for seven years at public broadcasting station WETA in Washington, DC, where he won two EMMYs and numerous other production awards. He has a Ph.D. in Human Development and Curriculum and BA and MA degrees in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures, both with minors in Psychology. He currently is on sabbatical and is a Senior Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Sheri Perelli (corporate partnerships and sponsorships) is an award winning international communications, marketing and business development professional with 25 years of government, corporate and consulting experience in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. Her current independent consultancy with a variety of domestic and international organizations focuses on both nonprofit and commercial education, entertainment and media initiatives. Ms. Perelli has developed corporate partnerships for Sesame Workshop’s international co-productions and for other international multiple media initiatives across the globe, developing for them multiple million dollar corporate sponsorships, partnerships and investments—often the largest such initiatives ever in those countries. During an 18-year corporate career, Ms. Perelli held a variety of senior corporate management positions in the US, Europe and Asia. Ms. Perelli holds BA and MA degrees in international relations and communications from the University of Michigan; an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; has completed executive programs at Stanford University and the Graduate School of Business and J.F. Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University and is a doctoral candidate at the Weatherhead School of Business at Case Western Reserve University where she is a Mandel Fellow with research foci in social marketing, business as an agent of social change and public/private partnerships.

Michael Templeton (science content and project design) has 30 years of experience in informal science education. From 1986-1990 he was Program Director for the National Science Foundation's Informal Science Education Program. Since 1990, he has worked as a consultant providing science content advising for clients that include numerous successful public television children's programs, including Cyberchase and The Magic School Bus. Templeton has served as executive director of the Computer Museum, Boston MA, the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, and the Association of Science-Technology Centers, and has participated in science development in many other science centers around the country. His long-standing commitment to science education in informal settings is reflected in extensive board and advisory committee service for national organizations and projects in addition to his extensive consulting work. His publications include A Formula for Success: Chemistry at Science Museums, ASTC (1992) and What America Thinks About Science Education Reform: An Analysis of the Bayer Facts of Science Education I, II, III, Bayer Corp., (1997). He holds advanced degrees in mathematics and physics.

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