Cassie Rodenberg is a writer who teaches science in South Bronx public school. She co-conducts an intensive photo-documentary project highlighting addiction, prostitution and poverty in Hunts Point, Bronx, a project rounding its second year and one that has received international acclaim. Her blog humanizing the lives of those struggling with addiction is hosted on the Scientific American blog network, and she was featured in 2012 Best Science Writing Online print anthology. Prior to her teaching and documentary work, she was Digital Lead at Discovery Channel and wrote in-house at Popular Mechanics magazine.