Ann Druyan is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American writer, producer, and director. She was co-writer, along with her late husband Carl Sagan, of the television series COSMOS, and served as creative director of the NASA project to design a complex message consisting of music, images and ideas for possible alien civilizations that was placed aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar spacecraft. She previously was a director with New York Children’s Health Fund, a project that provides mobile pediatric care to homeless and disadvantaged children in more than half-a dozen cities.