Tessa Alexanian is trying to steer towards nice futures for biotechnology. Her current focus is open-source tools for nucleic acid synthesis screening at IBBIS, the International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science. Previously, Tessa wrangled robots to do bioengineering for four years at Zymergen, served for two years at the iGEM Competition’s Safety and Security officer, and collaborated with organizations including NTI | bio, and RAND. She was a 2023 Council on Strategic Fellow for Ending Bioweapons, a 2022 ELBI fellow, 2020 Foresight Fellow, and 2017 iGEM BWC delegate.