• Cristina Deptula is a freelance science, technology, medicine, and ecology writer from the East Bay, and a community correspondent for KneeDeep. She's a former planetarium docent at Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center and one of the organizers of the Hayward Lit Hop.

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Science Is Like Punk Rock

Biomedical engineer Cynthia Prieto-Diaz is bringing DIY air quality monitors, community cleanups, and a punk spirit to environmental activism in San Leandro.... Read more.