Neuroscience arguably is unrivaled in its ability to fascinate and inspire, but too often, the importance of discoveries and their potential to relieve human suffering don’t reach the public. Communicating the promise of scientific inquiry to the public is particularly pressing in light of funding challenges and latent distrust of science. “If scientists don’t take hold of the conversation around science and public policy, then who [will]?” asked Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist and assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.