Mariette DiChristina

About Mariette

• Says that her path is really clear now that she's looking back, but it wasn't at all clear when she was in high school.
• Grew up with a single father who told her that she could be anything she wanted to be, which wasn't always the message women were told at the time.
• She always had an interest in science, but was overwhelmed by trying to pick one field-she enjoyed almost every science-related subject.
• When she got to college, she didn't know what to major in, but she had a journalism class that she says was "the most fun she'd ever had."
• One day, her professor pulled her aside and said, "All the best people are in journalism-you could be in journalism. You can do this."
• After college, she took a reporting job at a local newspaper.
• Her tryout story had been a piece on bluefish returning to the area; she realized that writing science stories could be her niche.
• Before that moment, she'd never thought that she'd be able to bring together both of her passions; suddenly it all clicked.