Sabriya Stukes earned her B.S. in Biology with a concentration in Microbiology and Immunology from Virginia Tech and recently received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. She has also worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD and the NYU Langone Medical Center researching infectious diseases to gain a better understanding of how they affect our immune system. Her work has appeared in multiple peer-reviewed journals.