As a kid I had a million questions about the world, and science seemed like the most fun way to get answers. That feeling never left me. What changed is how often the world wanted to turn that joy into labor, or to tell me I didn't quite belong. I kept going anyway. Nobody could take my love for science away from me.
I trained as a molecular biologist and earned a Ph.D. centered on how people learn and come to trust science. Over the past decade, my platform — Dr. Raven the Science Maven — has reached tens of millions of people, translating complex biology, immunology, and health science into something that feels like it's for them. Along the way I've built campaigns and curriculum with Pfizer, the FDA, NASA, Netflix, and the Smithsonian, hosted Pfizer's Science Will Win podcast across two seasons, and stood on stages from TEDx to NSTA to Princeton.
Now I spend my days building the things I always wished existed: Fervae, the infrastructure scientists have never had; The Science Haven, a nonprofit advancing STEM equity; and LearnScience.org. I'm a molecular biologist by training, a communicator by calling, a founder by necessity, and a trailblazer by the path I've been walking most of my life.