Emily Graslie is an artist, science communicator and writer, video host, and educational media producer.

Originally from South Dakota, Graslie moved to Missoula and earned a BFA from the School of Art at the University of Montana in 2011. In her senior year she began an internship on campus in the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, and shortly after graduation launched the educational YouTube channel The Brain Scoop to share the behind-the-scenes research and collections of the museum with a wider audience. In 2013, the Field Museum of Natural History hired Graslie and her team to create more than 200 episodes for The Brain Scoop that have been viewed tens of millions of times. Her media productions and storytelling adventures have taken her and her viewers through both space and time, from deep into the bat caves of Kenya, to the remote Peruvian Amazon jungle — and from the Cambrian through the Cenozoic by means of geologic and fossil formations across the United States.

In 2020 Graslie made her broadcast television debut on PBS in Prehistoric Road Trip, an original three-part series exploring the paleontology and natural history of the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming – and in PBS Digital Studios’ limited program In Our Nature the following year. Today, she continues to create videos for The Brain Scoop as an independent producer in partnership with scientists, nature centers, and museums around the country. Recent collaborators include the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (“Why were Ancient Egyptians obsessed with Cats?”), a rat dissection with the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and the Indiana Dunes State and National Parks (“Why these beaches near Chicago almost disappeared”).