When I first graduated from college, I was hoping to get my doctorate in biology and work on saving endangered species. My first job after college was really amazing: I worked on a project in Borneo studying orangutans. After I had been there for a few months, some of my Indonesian colleagues (who came from the local village) asked me why Americans come to Borneo to study orangutans instead of studying the orangutans in America. But there are no orangutans in America, except in zoos. I realized that no one had shared with these people the information that orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra and are really special and endangered. And suddenly I felt very strongly that everyone deserves to know what science has to show us, especially about their local areas. Ever since then I've worked in science education, hoping to share as much science with as many people as I can.