Beth Snoke Harris has been involved in science education at all levels as a high school classroom teacher, university outreach coordinator, curriculum developer, and trade book author. She currently serves rural counties in North Carolina as director of the North Carolina Inquiry Collaborative Network. She earned a B.S. in Physics from UNC Chapel Hill and a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from NC State University. She lives in Raleigh with her family where she also runs a native pollinator garden.