Kate MacDonald earned her PhD in medical biophysics from the University of Toronto, where she studied the cell biology of DNA damage. Her research has been published in top scientific journals, including Nature Communications and Molecular Cell. She is the founder of Zoom a Grad Student, an outreach program that connects high school students with scientists-in-training, to learn about STEM careers and navigating new-adult life. She currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University and lives in the Bay Area of California with her husband.