Elsa Flores
Flores grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her father studied biology and chemistry which sparked her love for science. However, when she had to make a decision for college, she was stuck between science and liberal arts. In the end, she enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and majored in chemical engineering. Later, she came back as a postdoctoral fellow.  As a postdoc she worked in Tyler Jacks's lab. Flores was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.