Background

Joslynn grew up outside of Farmington, NM and spent time with her first scientists, her nali's (grandparents in Diné) in Red Valley, AZ. Joslynn’s interest in scientific research started through the NIH MARC (now URISE) program at FLC which led her to pursue a career in science. She was a first-generation graduate student (her mom graduated college during her senior year of high school) and became the first in her family to pursue a PhD.

Prior to her current appointment at FLC, she was a Data Science Educator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s DNA Learning Center and Science Education Fellow at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Joslynn received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP) during graduate school. And most recently was selected as a Kavli Frontiers in Science Fellow in 2023. She is the program director at FLC for the HHMI IE3 grant.

Her teaching experience in the areas of computational chemistry/biology and data science skills has encouraged her to train bench scientists to better analyze their data. Joslynn cares about training more American Indian/Alaska Native students and their communities in genomics in a culturally appropriate way. She is active in the American Chemical Society (ACS), American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES) and Society Advancing Chicanos & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) communities.

Joslynn currently participates as the co-advisor for the FLC SACNAS chapter and co-advisor for FLC Pueblo Alliance. She co-leads the FLC Outdoor Equity group on-campus. For more information these groups.

Fort Lewis College Land acknowledgment

"We acknowledge the land that Fort Lewis College is situated upon is the ancestral land and territory of the Nuuchiu (Ute) people who were forcibly removed by the United States Government. We also acknowledge that this land is connected to the communal and ceremonial spaces of the Jicarilla Abache (Apache), Pueblos of New Mexico, Hopi Sinom (Hopi), and Diné (Navajo) Nations. It is important to acknowledge this setting because the narratives of the lands in this region have long been told from dominant perspectives, without full recognition of the original land stewards who continue to inhabit and connect with this land. Thank you for your attention and respect in acknowledging this important legacy. "
For more information about FLC Land Acknowledgment.