Kihana Wilson

By Kirrin Finch

Kihana Wilson (she/her) is an astrophysicist, writer, science communicator and content creator. As a Black, masculine-presenting lesbian woman, she deeply believes in the power of representation. Outside of her science, she is passionate about using her own voice, story, knowledge, and talents for representation and advocacy work to make science and academia more accessible to underrepresented groups traditionally excluded from STEM fields. She has recently graduated from The University of Chicago, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics with a minor in English and Creative Writing as a QuestBridge and Odyssey scholar. She is now working as a Cosmology researcher at Argonne National Laboratory. In her free time she enjoys martial arts, weightlifting, the outdoors, reading, and watching good shows and documentaries with a big bowl of popcorn!