# Stellate Communications

> Stellate Communications is a remote, scientist-led strategic communications firm founded in 2020. It helps researchers, universities, science-driven nonprofits, philanthropies, and selected companies turn technical work into narratives, grants, media coverage, websites, visual identities, and operational systems. Its public portfolio reports more than 150 clients served, over 1,000 science stories in the media, and $52.5 million in client grant funding.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Remote, United States
- **Founders:** Caitlin Vander Weele, PhD (Founder and CEO), Gabi Serrato Marks, PhD (Partner and Co-Founder)
- **Products:** Strategy and content, Media and thought leadership, Grants, manuscripts, and awards, Web and design, Research operations and faculty support
- **Notable:** Reports more than $52.5 million in grant funding awarded to clients., Reports more than 1,000 client science stories placed or supported in the media., Has served more than 150 clients, with 97 percent of surveyed clients saying they would recommend the firm to a colleague.

## Products & services

- **Strategy and content** — Narrative and research frameworks, messaging, press releases, articles, social content, newsletters, and grant proposals tailored to a defined audience.
- **Media and thought leadership** — Leadership positioning, proactive media relations, media training, interview support, and materials that help technical experts engage reporters.
- **Grants, manuscripts, and awards** — Opportunity identification, proposal development, scientific editing, collaborator coordination, and publication-ready figures and schematics.
- **Web and design** — Science-focused identities, websites, illustrations, animations, research schematics, event materials, and social assets.
- **Research operations and faculty support** — Budgeting, forecasting, milestone tracking, scheduling, opportunity triage, expenses, travel, and administrative support for investigators and teams.

## Achievements

- Reports more than $52.5 million in grant funding awarded to clients.
- Reports more than 1,000 client science stories placed or supported in the media.
- Has served more than 150 clients, with 97 percent of surveyed clients saying they would recommend the firm to a colleague.
- Completed 126 unique web and design projects in 2024.
- Built a team of more than 20 communicators and creatives; 79 percent have graduate degrees.
- Team members collectively report more than 110 authored research publications and a median of nine years in research.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Showcased a new website for Nanthia Suthana's Duke University lab, extending a current portfolio of neuroscience-focused web and identity work.
- **2026-06** — Published an analysis of where scientific conversation is moving as researchers reconsider Twitter/X and diversify across LinkedIn, Bluesky, newsletters, and other channels.
- **2026-04** — Published a new science media-relations playbook focused on preprints, smaller newsrooms, specialist outlets, newsletters, and podcasts.
- **2026-03** — Founder Caitlin Vander Weele discussed Stellate's origin and six-year growth in a profile interview with The Transmitter.
- **2026-01** — Published a five-part framing framework for durable science communication built around audience, context, narrative, channels, and consistency.

## Links

- Website: https://www.stellatecomms.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stellatecomms/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/stellatecomms
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zp46atg2ym5bolc6plqeoz6r

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Last updated: 2026-09-21