Author: Natalie Joe

Natalie Joe is a full-blooded Navajo Native American woman who grew up on the Navajo Reservation and she’s proud to be a first generation college and graduate student. She is a committed volunteer, curious scientist, science communicator, and underrepresented minority advocate. In 2016, she graduated from Fort Lewis College with a dual degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology and in Biochemistry. Currently, she is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Natalie Joe standing, smiling in the front of a beautiful green park.

Where is my place as an aspiring Native American STEM advocate?

I have seen the need for more Native American STEM advocates and I want to answer the call. But shouldn’t my days be spent in lab?