Lataisia Jones is an American neuroscientist in Washington, D.C. at the American Society for Microbiology. Jones was the first African American to graduate with a Ph.D. from the Department of Biomedical Sciences located within the College of Medicine at Florida State University (FSU). Jones has spent her career studying neurological disorders through molecular and systems biology, and doing outreach and mentoring underrepresented minorities to inspire them to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.