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Christa Lesté-Lasserre is a science journalist specialising in animal health and behaviour, life sciences and evolutionary processes. Her articles and stories have appeared in major science magazines and literary reviews in multiple languages across the globe. Based in France's greater Paris area, Christa holds an MA from the University of Mississippi and a BA from Baylor University in Texas, complemented by postgraduate work at the University of Paris René Descartes.
A Pulitzer Center grantee for her coverage of the covid-19 pandemic for Science magazine and recipient of American Horse Publications awards for her articles on equine behaviour, Christa focuses on shaping scientific studies into the stories they tell.
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