Sera is a Learning Scientist and Teaching Consultant at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Teaching and Learning. After completing her undergraduate education at Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College and her PhD in biology at MIT, she followed her growing interest in education, doing a postdoc as a Digital Learning Fellow at MIT, creating biology Massive Open Online Courses and other digital educational resources. Sera was PGSS class of 2002 and returned as a biology TA in 2005 and 2007. Her experiences at PGSS have inspired many of the important choices in her career, and she hopes to help the program continue offering opportunities as widely as possible.