If you’ve ever wondered if Beyoncé has a scientific counterpart, wonder no more: it’s Attabey Rodríguez Benítez, a.k.a. Science Bey! Attabey is a chemical biologist and bilingual science communicator with a passion for understanding Nature’s power and sharing it with others. She explains how her research is helping us learn about the many tricks enzymes can do, as well as teaching them novel tricks that can be used in disease therapies. She also shares her journey as a first-generation college student, telling us how her work as a scientific illustrator is harnessing the power of images to communicate science more effectively, especially across linguistic barriers. The friends also discuss Attabey’s AAAS Mass Media Fellowship with Science Friday, and how her work with the Women in Red WikiProject is helping to increase awareness of Latinas in STEM.

You can find Attabey on Twitter and Instagram @ScienceBey. You can also learn more about her amazing work on her website at https://science-bey.com/ and at the links below.

https://linkedin.com/in/attabey
https://www.chembio.umich.edu/
https://www.lsi.umich.edu/profiles/alison-narayan-phd
https://www.lsi.umich.edu/profiles/janet-smith-phd
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_63IT70AAAAJ&hl=en

Attabey’s Ultimate Guide for Figure-Making:
https://science-bey.com/science-illustration-eng

Yale Ciencia Academy Fellows:
https://www.cienciapr.org/en/blogs/yale-ciencia-academy/meet-2020-yale-ciencia-academy-fellows

AAAS Mass Media Fellows:
https://www.aaas.org/programs/mass-media-fellowship/2020-mass-media-fellows

Science Friday:
https://www.sciencefriday.com/

Women in Red WikiProject:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red

Adriana Ocampo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Ocampo