Dr. Tom Rice is an astronomer and educator who currently works as an Education and Mentoring Specialist for the American Astronomical Society, the largest professional society of astronomers and astrophysicists in North America. Dr. Rice previously taught and researched at Columbia University as a Science Fellow. A first-generation college student at Harvard University (2008-2012), he received his Ph.D. in astronomy in 2019 from the University of Michigan. He grew up in a Deaf, ASL speaking family in Oregon City, Oregon.
