About Kavin
Kavin Senapathy is an award-winning writer, journalist, and professional speaker covering science, health, food, and parenting. Her writing has appeared in Slate, Scientific American, SciShow, The Daily Beast, Undark, SELF, Forbes, and more. She’s also the co-founder and contributing editor at SciMoms.com. She’s a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the American Society of Journalists and Authors and has spoken to a variety of audiences ranging from tens to thousands worldwide.
She’s based in Madison, Wisconsin (ope!) where she lives with her husband Jesse, their 6th grader and 4th grader, and their dogs Sebastian and Selene.
When she’s not working, Kavin enjoys reading, writing, having friends over, giving (mostly) solicited advice, watching music videos, and traveling.
Causes and issues she cares about include:
Bodily autonomy and informed choice in healthcare for women, nonbinary people, and BIPOC
Power dynamics in science
Mental health
Black Lives
Pseudoscience, pseudoscience injustice, scientism, and science injustice
Secularism
Image by Patricia LaPointe
Kavin always shows off her sticker after voting.
Kavin in a narwhal hat advocating for flu vaccines
Kavin in Madison, WI, holding down an intersection with local protestors.
Kavin discussing Science Moms at McGill University Office for Science and Society.
Kavin and her husband Jesse.
Of the two, Sebastian may be the more photogenic.
Kavin loves walking through the aisles to nerd out on labels and marketing.
Sebastian and Luna enjoy the sun.
Luna shows us a blep.
Kavin at a CRISPR workshop.
Talking about the Overblown Breast is Best Mantra
Wearing one of her favorite Surly-Ramics pieces.
