About Me

I’m an award-winning magazine reporter and radio producer, with more than 15 years professional experience. I’ve written for the New Yorker, the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Smithsonian, Slate, and many others; a feature I wrote on scientist Michael Levin, published online in Matter, won the 2014 journalism award from the international Institute of Physics. I also co-host a bi-weekly podcast, Gastropod, about the science and history of food. 

In 2012-2013, I spent the year as a Knight science journalism fellow at MIT, and I followed it with one of the inaugural UC Berkeley Food and Farming fellowships, overseen by Michael Pollan. The reporting I did for that fellowship became a print story on PBS Nova Next, a short radio piece on The World, and a long audio documentary on Gastropod. The Gastropod episode, The Microbe Revolution, recently won a regional Edward R. Murrow award.

I attended the honors program at the University of Maryland on a nearly full scholarship and graduated magna cum laude. I also have a masters degree in science journalism from Boston University.

I’ve published personal essays in the past, and, 25 years later, I still remember two of the essays I wrote for my college applications in 1990.

Samples of my work:

The New Yorker, "The Problem with Precision Medicine"

Gastropod, "Breakfast of Champions"

Slate, "What a Difference a Lightbulb Makes"

PBS NovaNext, "The Next Green Revolution May Rely on Microbes"

BBC, "Data Visualization Aims to Change View of Global Health"