From Researcher to Entrepreneur to Writer

Biography of Alana Rister

Edited by Author: Left Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash and Right Photo by Mathilde Langevin on Unsplash

I thought that I would always be a scientist. I expected to be running my own lab at a prestigious institution one day.

I was on track to create this life. I graduated with my bachelor’s in chemistry and sexuality and gender studies in 2016. Eight days later, I had moved across the country and was starting my doctoral…