Kristin Sainani (née Cobb) received an M.S. in statistics and Ph.D. in epidemiology from Stanford University and studied science writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She writes about science for a range of audiences, including authoring the health column Body News for Allure magazine and the statistics column Statistically Speaking for the journal Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She teaches two popular Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Writing in the Sciences and Statistics in Medicine (on Coursera and OpenEdX).