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Alison Dell, BioBus Lead Community Scientist, is a molecular biologist and artist. Dell received her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she now teaches in the department of Fine Art and Design. Dell is co-founder of Art in the Lab, an ongoing series bringing scientists and artists together for events that mix drawing and laboratory work.  

Marina Delgado, Community Scientist, graduated from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, where she majored in Interdisciplinary Science. Marina received a Eugene Lang Opportunity Award and a Mohn Family Foundation Scholarship Award in Summer 2017, funding her research experience at the Centro de Investigación y Extensión Forestal Andino Patagónico in her home country of Argentina, where she studied the endangerment of prehistoric tree Pehuen, and increased awareness of the tree’s cultural and sacrilegious importance to Patagonia’s indigenous people, los Mapuche. She recently extended her education in Cornell Small Farm’s Community Mushroom Educator training program, in which she studied how to build access to mushroom growing for BIPOC in NYC’s Lower East Side. As a bicultural Latina, having the opportunity to give young BIPOC a positive experience with science is especially valuable to her.  marina@biobus.org

Candida Barreto, Support Community Scientist, graduated from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and majored in Interdisciplinary Science; the program focuses on addressing planetary health issues through a social justice lens and applying this knowledge to real-world scenarios. Candida received the Mohn Science and Social Justice Fellowship award from Summer 2019-Summer 2021, which funded her internship experiences at Public Health Solutions working on data analysis for WIC (Women, Infants, and Children), and at BioBus studying soil composition and mycoremediation in NYC Community Gardens, as well as developing outreach models for the hispanic community city-wide. Most recently she worked with the Lower East Side Ecology Center as an education intern where she developed an urban ecology-based curriculum in partnership with Henry Street Settlement. As a native New Yorker, she is passionate about giving back to under-resourced communities throughout the city with a close focus on Hispanic and Immigrant communities. candida.barreto@biobus.org

Maia Yoshida, Community Scientist, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in Cellular & Molecular Biology. She then spent two years at the Lim Lab at the University of California, San Francisco, studying immune cell cytokine signaling networks and their applications for engineering cell therapies that target cancers. She also headed the lab’s outreach efforts and became excited about science education that integrates the arts. This led her to pursue a M.A. in STEM Education at King’s College London as a Thouron Scholar. There, she conducted original research with the Institute of Imagination on children’s perceptions of the relationship between maker education and inquiry-based science learning. Maia believes in BioBus’s mission of supporting science education that is relevant, creative, and inspiring, emphasizing that science is everywhere and for everyone!