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Emily Graslie was born and raised in Rapid City\, So uth Dakota. After moving to Missoula\, Montana to pursue an undergraduate degree in fine art painting\, she fell in love with the campus vertebrate research collection as a place of artistic inspiration. What started off a s a passionate volunteering position within a small museum eventually tran sformed into a career as an advocate for these under-appreciated repositor ies. As Chief Curiosity Correspondent for the Field Museum in Chicago\, sh e served as creator\, host and writer of The Brain Scoop\, an educational YouTube channel with 200+ episodes about natural history that have been vi ewed more than 32 million times. In 2020 she made her broadcast television debut on PBS as Executive Producer\, Host and Writer of Prehistoric Road Trip\, a new series by WTTW Chicago about paleontology and geology in the Dakotas\, Montana and Wyoming. \;

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Emily has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work\, including the American Alliance of Museum's Nancy Hanks Award for Professional Excellence. She&rsquo\;s a six -time Webby Award nominee and honoree in the &lsquo\;Online Science/Educat ion Channel&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;Web Personality/Host&rsquo\; categories\; a member of the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 list in Education\; and was named as one of the Chicagoans of the Year in the Arts in 2017 by the Chicago Tr ibune. Recently\, in recognition of her outreach efforts\, scientists at t he Universities of Florida and Paraná\; in Brazil named a new specie s of butterfly in her honor: Wahydra graslieae. \;

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