As a high school student in Denver, Tori Anderson Noell thought “there were people who did science and people who did not do science. And they weren’t really the same,” she says.
As an art and theater kid, for example, she was firmly in the camp of people who did not do science. But, as she got older, that world view slowly started to shift. She began to realize that people are complex individuals who don’t fit quite so neatly into boxes and, just as importantly, that anyone can be a scientist — including an art and theater kid like herself.