Alex Dainis is a freelance science communicator and video producer with eight years of experience producing digital, educational content for the web. Her background includes a PhD in genetics from Stanford University, and she was honored to be a 2019 Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow. Her long-running YouTube channel brings biology and genetics to over 40,000 subscribers and her science communication efforts have reached millions of viewers across multiple social media platforms. Now based in Los Angeles, CA, she has created Helicase Media LLC to focus on bringing humanity and storytelling to science via online media.