Join us at the 2026 Outrider Nuclear Media Summit
This fall, we are bringing together journalists—as well as TV and movie screenwriters, producers, directors, and content creators—to discuss nuclear security issues related to artificial intelligence, health, the environment, and outer space.
October 22-23, 2026Warner Bros Studios and the ASU California Center Broadway
In partnership with Hollywood, Health and Society at USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, the Outrider Nuclear Media Summit will bring together media professionals, entertainment producers, national security experts, policymakers, and scientists. This free, two-day event offers conference sessions, training, and networking.

Featured Speakers


Nicholas Meyer

Director & Writer, “The Day After”


Jill Hruby

Former Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security & Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration


Charles Oppenheimer

Founder & Co-Executive Director, The Oppenheimer Project, grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer


Steve James

Documentary filmmaker, “A Compassionate Spy” and “Hoop Dreams”


W.J. Hennigan

Correspondent, New York Times Opinion


Lesley M.M. Blume

Journalist & Author, “Fallout”


Blythe Terrell

Executive Editor, “Science Vs” podcast


Maynard Okereke

Founder and host, “Hip Hop Science”


Nicole Sweeney

Executive Producer, Complexly’s “SciShow”


Ira Helfand

Past President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize


Nate Matteson

Producer, “Station Eleven,” “The Bear,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”


Luke Matheny

Luke Matheny, Oscar-winning Director & Writer


Michael Russell Gunn

Director and Writer, "The Brink of War"


Mackenzie Knight-Boyle

Senior Research Associate, Federation of American Scientists


Kate Langrall Folb

Program Director, Hollywood Health & Society, The Norman Lear Center


David Singer

Creator of the fiction podcast, “Incoming”


Aparna Mukherjee

Executive Director, The Society of Environmental Journalists


Jeff Gipe

Documentary filmmaker, “Half-Life of Memory: America’s Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory”


Dr. Heather Williams

Director, Project on Nuclear Issues and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department


Yasmeen Silva

Co-Creator, US Nuclear Impacts Map & Campaign Director, Union of Concerned Scientists


Hamza Chaudhry

AI and National Security Lead, Future of Life Institute


Christine E. Wormuth

President and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative


Melissa Bumstead

Founder, Parents Against the Santa Susana Field Lab (PASSFL)


Joel Grover

Investigative journalist, previously with KNBC

OUR PARTNERS

Andrew Carnegie Foundation
Future of Life Institute
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
USC Annenberg Normal Lear Center
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Zocalo Public Square
Pulitzer Center
Society of Professional Journalists
Media Impact Funders
Society of Environmental Journalists
World Press Institute
XLab – Existential Risk Laboratory
Video Consortium
Federation of American Scientists
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Military Veterans in Journalism
Asian American Journalists Association
Tarbell Fellowship
ASU Future Security Initiative
Small Wars Journal
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
The Prospect Hill Foundation
Project C
The Institute for Independent Journalists
ASU Center for Science and the Imagination
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Association of Science Communicators
Journalism Funding Partners
Los Angeles Reporting Collective
Belfer Center
Physicians for Social Responsibility - LA
LA Press Club
Union of Concerned Scientists
Transom Story Lab
New Filmmakers LA
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