Ainissa Ramirez

Ainissa Ramirez is a scientist and science communicator and the author of the first book in the Black Innovators series, Spark: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone, illustrated by Setor Fiadzigbey. She dreamed of becoming a scientist when she was a little girl. She earned her doctorate in materials science from Stanford, worked at Bell Labs, and taught mechanical engineering at Yale. Ainissa Ramirez lives in Connecticut.