Leah Kelly is a neuroscientist at Rockefeller University. She uses electrophysiology, tracing, and imaging to elucidate how neurons communicate with the rest of the body to regulate appetite and metabolism. In 2014 she cocurated the Impakt Festival in the Netherlands. Her essay “Sense of Self” appears in Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense, published by MIT in 2016.