Lauren Esposito is the assistant curator and Schlinger chair of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences.

[1] She kept a collection of insects in egg cartons, and her first grade science project looked at the Mendelian genetics of pigeon colours.

[2] She completed her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center and the American Museum of Natural History (Scorpion Systematics Research Lab) in 2011.

[21][22] She told Slate magazine that her favourite fact about scorpions was that they behave like mammals and bear live young.

[23][24] In 2014, Esposito co-founded of Islands & Seas, a non-profit that supports scientific research and education at its field station in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

[38] It is the highest national honor that NOGLSTP can award to a member, recognizing that individual's commitment to their mission.