Susan McClatchy has worked in bioinformatics education at the Jackson Laboratory since 2004. She has many years of experience training scientists at external academic institutions, at conferences, and at home in genomics, bioinformatics, and computer programming. She manages the Bioinformatics Training Program at JAX and collaborates internationally with scientist-educators from Software and Data Carpentry, nonprofit organizations with a shared mission to build data science fluency in the global research communities that they serve.