Throughout 2018 we had the privilege of engaging with Julie Thompson Klein using an ethnographic approach combining interviews via teleconferencing and email exchanges to discuss many aspects of her work with the goal of understanding how she herself views her scholarly evolution over the past five decades. Discussions about Klein's life quickly became intertwined with stories about her work, and the process of capturing details of her intellectual journey resulted in a collection of commentaries in which biography could not be easily separated from review of her scholarly output. In this article, we decided to foreground the richness of the dialogue we have so enjoyed in which there has been a fusion of the two kinds of content, incorporating Klein's reflections to illuminate some of the central themes of her entwined personal and academic trajectories. We have chosen to organize the material into three categories that we see as primary areas of focus for her and her work over the years: interdisciplinary educational activities, contributions to the professionalizing of interdisciplinarity, and discourse on teams. Whenever possible, we quote Klein directly in her own words (printed in italics) to facilitate our overview of these areas.