In this interview, Helen Quinn, Professor Emerita of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at SLAC, discusses her recent interests in science education and policy in the years since her retirement from SLAC, and she recounts her childhood in Australia where she developed her early interests in science in an all-girls school. Quinn discusses her undergraduate work at Melbourne University, where she pursued studies in meteorology, she describes the circumstances leading to her transfer to Stanford University, and her initial assumption that she would return with her family to Australia upon graduating. She describes her decision to stay on for graduate school at Stanford, and she explains the formative experience working with Burt Richter and bj (James Bjorken). Quinn describes all of the excitement happening at SLAC during her graduate work, and she discusses her postdoctoral research at DESY on trying to understand the shape of the rho meson in photo production. She explains the circumstances leading to her move to Boston, and how she became involved with particle theory at Harvard with Shelly Glashow, Steve Weinberg, Tom Applequist, and Howard Georgi. Quinn describes her return to Stanford where she worked with Roberto Peccei on QCD and CP symmetry and her many collaborations with Marvin Weinstein. She discusses her work in educational and outreach efforts on behalf of SLAC, how the lab's relations with the DOE changed in the 1990s, and her accomplishments as department chair of Particle Physics and Astrophysics. Quinn describes her tenure as president of the APS, and the import of the B Factory for SLAC. At the end of the interview, Quinn returns to her current interests in science education, and why current events have added additional urgency to these endeavors.