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). As of 2014, only 163 of 4,923 graduate students in a neuroscience/neurobiology program in the US were African American. Jones has dedicated her career to both studying neurological disorders through molecular and systems biology, and to outreach and mentorship for underrepresented minorities to inspire them to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.