“I do a lot of tutoring and volunteer work with young students. I also always try to have an undergraduate in the lab that I can help train. I like helping students discover what they are passionate about. I think watching a student finally work through a problem that they did not know they were capable of solving is what drives me. Seeing that “aha” moment, and more importantly helping someone see that they can achieve anything if they put their mind to it, means a lot to me. When I was growing up, I didn’t have many people invested in my education, until I went to college where I had a few amazing professors that were so personally invested in helping their students learn and getting us excited about science. I know that personally, getting that kind of support changed my life for the better. I want to give that same feeling back to the students, that feeling of discovering something I was passionate about and that I could actually be good at. I especially like seeing young women get excited about science and showing them all of the cool things that we don't yet know. Every day you can be discovering something new.”