ABOUT THE AUTHORS
HASSE WALUM
Hasse is a tall, Swedish teacup giraffe (one of the few giraffes from the North). When not munching on celery and doing creative writing, he spends his time working as an instructor at Emory University, coding in R, thinking about issues related to scientific rigor, and analyzing gene expression data.
DESIRÉE DE LEON
Desirée is a multidisciplinary teacup giraffe who is a recent PhD grad in neuroscience at Emory University, and also enjoys illustrating and bluegrass (both the music and the plant). Her graduate research involved using R to analyze pedigree data of cute monkey families living at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.