Kimberleigh Tommy is a PhD candidate and science communicator, based at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where she studies hominin functional morphology as it relates to locomotion. She has won numerous awards for both her science communication and research; most recently she was named one of The Mail and Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans making a difference in their fields as well as a recipient of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science South African National Young Talents programme awards. We asked her about her background, her interests and her hopes for the future.
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Nic Eoin, L., Tommy, K. Talk the talk and walk the walk. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 888–889 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01483-3
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