Clea Koff
Science
Clea Koff is a forensic anthropologist born in 1972 to a Tanzanian mother and American father, both documentary filmmakers.
She grew up traveling internationally, developing an interest in human osteology as a teenager.
Koff earned degrees from Stanford University and the University of Arizona before joining UN teams exhuming genocide victims in Rwanda at age 23.
Her experiences working on mass graves in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo from 1996 to 2000 formed the basis of her memoir, The Bone Woman, published in 2004.
Koff's work focused on gathering evidence for trials and helping families identify their loved ones.
