With over 20 years of teaching experience and research in molecular biology and genetics, Dr. Laurie Jackson-Grusby brings experimental expertise and outstanding mentoring skills to her work as a high school teacher. She has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Whitehead Institute, an Assistant Professor at Boston Children’s Hospital, and has taught undergraduate, graduate and post-doc students at the Harvard Extension and Medical Schools. Dr. Jackson-Grusby transitioned to teaching high school, working in the Science Department and the Teacher Residency program at Newton North from 2015-2017. Laurie began teaching at Brockton High School in 2017, where she continues to guide students through engaging lessons and capstone project presentations, including the freshmen Synthetic Biology Expo and Senior Independent Lab Research in Antibiotic Discovery, which in 2020 will be at Tufts Medical School. Outside of the classroom, she co-leads the Brockton cohort of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Apprenticeship Challenge. The after-school 10-week training program prepares 24 primarily underrepresented students for work in academic or commercial life sciences laboratories as summer interns. She also participates in ongoing workshops and seminars, which models life-long learning for her students. Laurie has created a novel Health Care Innovation Pathway at Brockton to help students navigate to STEM careers that will feed into and diversify the Biotechnology ecosystem of the Commonwealth. She holds a B.A. in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University.