Building Crafts Through Biology
Maryland Heights scientist mom dabbles in DIY entrepreneurship.
Her fingers move nimbly through the ribbons, expertly twisting the four strands in a delicate braid. She pauses suddenly, leaping from her perch on the kitchen chair to attend to a crisis down the hall. A cartoon video in the living room has stopped, and three-year-old Taiven needs a bathroom break. In a moment she is back to her craft, simultaneously wielding her glue gun and coaxing her son to eat more of his grilled cheese sandwich. Riannon Mendoza is the epitome of a multi-tasker. She is, at once, a designer of crafts, business woman, mommy and wife. Two days a week, she is also a biologist in the neurology department at the Washington University School of Medicine. With the same steady hands she uses to conduct blood tests in the lab…
