Shawn Otto is an award-winning science advocate, writer, teacher, and speaker. He is the cofounder of ScienceDebate.org and the producer of the first US Presidential Science Debates, for which he received the IEEE-USA’s National Distinguished Public Service Award. He has advised science debate efforts in several countries. He is also a novelist and filmmaker. His novel Sins of Our Fathers, a literary thriller, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and his film House of Sand and Fogwas nominated for three Academy Awards. His latest book is The War on Science. He lives in Minnesota with his wife, Rebecca Otto, the State Auditor, in a wind-powered, green, solar home he designed and built with his own hands. The couple have one son, Jacob.
