Qiyun Woo has been a science communicator since the age of 9. That was the year her childhood hero Australian zookeeper and TV personality Steve Irwin was killed by a short-tail stingray while filming a documentary off the Great Barrier Reef. Devastated, Woo wrote a three-page essay on his life’s work.
Now 25, she’s the founder of The Weird and Wild (@theweirdandwild), an Instagram page she started in 2018 that breaks down complex climate issues and needle-pushing science into doodles and infographics that educate and inspire action.
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