Project Ambassadors Help bring an urgent global health story to the screen.

Project Ambassadors are science communicators, herpetologists, educators, conservationists, and others who are helping introduce the film and the neglected global problem of snakebite to their own audiences.

I am grateful to the team below for lending their voices, reach, and support to help us get this film made.

Cindy Steinle

Cindy Steinle Kingsnake.com kingsnake.com

Cindy Steinle is a longtime figure in the U.S. reptile community, best known for her work with kingsnake.com, where she has served as site coordinator, interviewer, writer, and community representative for one of herpetoculture’s pioneering online hubs. She also runs Milwaukee’s Small Scale Reptile Rescue and has served as vice president of the Chicago Herpetological Society, combining decades of reptile rescue, public education, advocacy, and community involvement. She is a frequent presence at reptile events and has twice spoken at the International Herpetological Symposium.

Tianna Johnson

Tianna Johnson Wildlife Biologist facebook.com/wildlifertianna

Tianna Johnson is a wildlife biologist and science communicator whose fieldwork has focused on the population biology and conservation of timber rattlesnakes in Pennsylvania. She conducted mark–recapture research on the species through East Stroudsburg University and has served as a county coordinator for the Pennsylvania Amphibian and Reptile Survey, while also using photography and social media to promote informed coexistence with snakes and other wildlife.

Ian Breland

Ian Breland Serpentine Expeditions serpentineexpeditions.com

Ian is a graduate of Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning, a freelance conservation videographer, wildlife photographer, and expedition guide. He has worked on a wide range of wildlife conservation projects, including Operation Milagro VIII in Mexico alongside Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, supporting anti-poaching operations in Indonesia, and filming with rewilding centers, reserves, and research stations in the Peruvian Amazon.

Kira Cates

Kira Cates The Orianne Society oriannesociety.org

Growing up in rural Louisiana, Kira always had an affinity for reptiles and amphibians, particularly when it came to snakes. After graduating with an honors degree in natural resource ecology and management from LSU, she has now gained experience that has taken her around the globe ranging from teaching, fundraising, all the way to herpetological research. She’s worked on projects with iconic species such as the Eastern Indigo (Drymarchon couperi) and the Japanese Giant Salamander (Andrias japonicus), and is always searching for ways to use her platform or experience to further conservation initiatives for herpetofauna around the world.

Sterrin Smalbrugge

Sterrin Smalbrugge Herpetologist, Ecologist sterrinswildworld.nl

Sterrin is a Dutch ecologist, herpetologist, presenter, author, and an experienced venomous snake handler. She graduated with honours from Wageningen University. She presents her own educational TV-show “Reptielengek” (Crazy about reptiles) on the Dutch streaming service Videoland. She also coordinates Women Into the Wild, an all-women herping tour in Suriname.

Kimberly Wyatt

Kimberly Wyatt National Snakebite Support facebook.com/groups/NSS

Kimberly Wyatt is a biology professor and snakebite educator whose academic research interests including the history and epidemiology of snakebite and the study of invasive herpetofauna. She serves as vice president of National Snakebite Support and helps administer its Facebook community, which connects snakebite patients and pet owners with medical experts. She is also a member of the Asclepius Snakebite Foundation team.

Become a Project Ambassador

Some of the people most likely to care about The Antivenom Interviews already follow people they know and trust.

I am looking for additional Project Ambassadors with established audiences in herpetology, wildlife, science communication, medicine, global health, conservation, and related fields who would like to help us reach those communities.

There is no single formula for participating. An ambassador might introduce the project through social media or a newsletter, share our videos and production updates, host a conversation or interview, or simply encourage their audience to learn about and support the film. I can provide images, video, background material, and other resources to make that easy.

More than anything, I'm looking for people who already have a genuine connection to the subjects this film explores and who think their audiences would want to see it made.

If that sounds like you, please contact me:

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