past + present
A ’90S THROWBACK: Our January 1994 cover featured 11-month-old Meredith Mortberg (now 28-year-old Meredith Mortberg-Pokatayev). She was photographed by Michael Clements, using the kitchen in her family’s home as a makeshift studio. In her post-cover days, Mortberg-Pokatayev studied at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. While on the West Coast, Mortberg-Pokatayev moon- C lighted as a freelance illus- M trator, even illustrating for this magazine (and winning Y awards for it!) under the CM pseudonym of Meredith Mosshart. She then made a MY leap to a career in science. CY These days, MortbergCMY Pokatayev lives in Boston and works as a research K associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University. Last May, she married a fellow scientist, Vlad Pokatayev, and together they adopted a Shih-Poo rescue dog, Bob. —Lauren Niebes
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Mortberg-Pokatayev with her husband, Vlad.
