Christina Couch is the associate director of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing and a lecturer in the program. She authored two middle grade science books published by MIT Kids Press and was a Fall 2020 Education Writers Association Reporting Fellow, where she covered federal, state, and private efforts to expand science education within US prisons. Her writing can be found in Atlas Obscura, Fast Company, Hakai Magazine, Mental Floss Magazine, The New York Times, NOVA, Science Friday, Smithsonian, The Verge, Vogue.com, and elsewhere.