Cosmic Particles Welcomes Maureen Seaberg - Synesthesia, Tasting the World!

Maureen Seaberg is a NYC-based journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, the New York Daily News, Irish America, ESPN the magazine and on MSNBC, PBS and NBC. She is a synesthete who sees numbers, letters, days of the week, months and some music and sound in color. She also has motion to hearing synesthesia. She sees the imagery both in her minds eye and out in her visual field. The first journalist to interview Itzhak Perlman, Billy Joel and the family of Marilyn Monroe about their synesthesia, she has lectured at The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona and at the American Synesthesia Association conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She has participated in a workshop about synesthesia at New York University. Ms. Seaberg will moderate a day-long workshop at the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference in Stockholm this May. She has a bachelors degree in journalism and a minor in Spanish from Penn State University and a certificate in superior-level Spanish language from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.