After completing her doctorate from Texas A&M University and following up with postdoctoral work at the University of California, Davis, Amanda Hulse-Kemp moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, as a computational biologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service. At NAPB’s annual meeting, Hulse-Kemp sits down to talk about what drives her, the challenge of communicating what she does and how she’s working to overcome it, and the importance of a good mentor and group of friends.