Jasmine Brown is a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed an M.Phil. in History of Science, Medicine and Technology at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. When she was an undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, she founded the Minority Association of Rising Scientists and served as its president, working to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in science and medicine. This is her first book.