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Samantha is a science illustrator and visual communication specialist based in Dallas, Texas, currently working for the Division of Research, Innovation, and Impact at the University of Missouri. She received her B.S. in Neurobiology from the University of Texas at Austin and attended the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, leaving once she realized illustrating her study guides was more fun than actually studying them. She received a graduate certificate in Science Illustration from California State University, Monterey Bay. She greatly enjoys the problem-solving aspect of visual communications: finding the best way to present complex material clearly to a given audience. Samantha previously worked as an exhibit graphic designer at the Dallas Zoo, is a Certified Interpretive Guide, and was the founding President of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Texas Group.