Ashanta Ester

Ashanta Ester is a Springfield, Massachusetts, native with a bachelor’s degree in biology/premed from Our Lady of the Elms College and a master’s in biology from Smith College. She worked at Smith for five years doing molecular-based research and diagnostics of Lymphatic filariasis and soil-transmitted helminths. She is currently a special education teacher. She enjoys passing on her passion for molecular biology to the students in Your Genes, Your Chromosomes in the Summer Science & Engineering Program.