# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cara-santa-maria
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:41:32.929Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cara-santa-maria"
name: "Cara Santa Maria"
slug: "cara-santa-maria"
description: "Cara Louise Santa Maria is an American science communicator. She hosts the podcast Talk Nerdy and co-hosts The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast, and was a co-host of TechKnow on Al Jazeera America."
tagline: "Journalist, science communicator, television personality, author, and podcaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cara_Santa_Maria.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1983-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.597532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 221
platforms:
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    handle:    "CaraSantaMaria"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/cara_santa_maria/"
    handle:    "cara_santa_maria"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "ScienceCara"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm4103751"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.carasantamaria.com/"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "كارا سانتا ماريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارا سانتا ماريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cara Santa Maria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cara Santa Maria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cara_Santa_Maria"
    title: "Cara Santa Maria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cara_Santa_Maria"
    title: "Cara Santa Maria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کارا سانتا ماریا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cara Santa Maria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cara Santa Maria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump