Steve Schneider encouraged my work in Earth System Science while I was a visiting fellow at Stanford.
Stuart Kauffman, the evolutionary biologist who inspired Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park, was my mentor in the early days of the Santa Fe Institute, where we worked on neural networks/AI applied to complex systems.

My sister, Lara Pullen, as an immunologist founded an organization to cure rare diseases, starting with her child’s
My late grandfather stirred my interest in international security and nuclear issues
My late husband was Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and internet commerce pioneer

To heal from the heartbreak of losing my husband I taught my kids to scuba dive so we could experience together the life-sustaining coral reefs of our miraculous planet.