I’m an award-winning science journalist, as well as an editor, educator, and public speaker.

Currently, I’m the story editor for Sierra Magazine, where I commission and edit freelancers reporting on climate science, environmental justice, and conservation for our quarterly print magazine and website.

For nearly six years prior, I was myself an independent journalist reporting on science, health, food, and technology for National Geographic, the Boston Globe, Curbed, Lenny Letter, Undark Magazine, and others. Toward the end of that time, most of my reporting happened through spearheading special newsstand issues of National Geographic called “bookazines”—these products are reported and written by one person over the course of a year or more, like a book, but distributed in the style of a glossy magazine. Head over to my Special Projects page to check out this work.

In addition to pursuing my own reporting and editing, I have also taught science journalism at the Johns Hopkins graduate program in science writing, and an MIT summer program for rising high school seniors.

I love public speaking, and regularly appear on and moderate panels, give keynote addresses at in-person events and webinars, and speak on television and radio news shows.

Earlier in my career, I was MIT Technology Review's first multimedia editor, working as a one-woman team to build the centenarian magazine's social media and video presence largely from scratch. I also did web production, and regular reporting. Before that, I worked as a reporter at New Scientist in London.

I hold a master of science degree in science journalism from Boston University and bachelor of arts degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and anthropology from the University of Rochester, where I also minored in public health, and spent all of my spare time working on the campus newspaper. I still love to learn, and pursue regular opportunities for professional development. I’ve completed journalism fellowships at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria; and the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Photo by Timothy O’Connell