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Trading Pom-Poms for Field Boots: Mireya Mayor's Big Break

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As part of a series called “My Big Break,” All Things Considered is collecting stories of triumph, big and small. These are the moments when everything seems to click, and people leap forward into their careers.

Mireya Mayor’s life plays out like an adventure film.

She’s a globe-trotting anthropologist, primatologist, wildlife expert …Read More

Source: NPR Science – ingested into KQED

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