Her Stem Story

Our guest today is "The Fairy God Mother of SciCommers", Christine Liu. Christine is the co-founder of Two-Photon Art, a science-art online store and the founder of The STEM Squad, an online community to support and promote people who identify with a historically marginalized gender.   Currently a 5th year PhD candidate at UC Berkeley in Neuroscience. Christine graduated with a Biology and Psychology double major from the University of Oregon in 2014. Her organizations and outreach work focuses on promoting Science and scientists. With her work, she issues micro-grants, creates resources and artfully promotes inclusion in STEM across her 15k plus social media following. Listen to Christine's amazing STEM story. In this episode we discuss: 1) Christine's experiences of growing up as a first-generation immigrant in America. 2) How she paid for school and found a way to make STEM accessible for herself through budgeting and planning? 3) How she's using her love for art to advocate that science is for everyone? 4