Experience

Live Science

• United States
• Internet News
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Health Channel Editor

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  New York, New York, United States - Commissions and edits health news and evergreen articles from staff writers and freelancers - Reports health news, including daily news, analyses and "explainer" features - Sets health vertical strategy alongside the EIC and managing editor with the goal of covering core areas of interest, meeting readership targets and providing supporting content for existing site pages - Assists in top edits and copy edits across Live Science's other verticals (Human Behavior, Planet Earth… Show more - Commissions and edits health news and evergreen articles from staff writers and freelancers - Reports health news, including daily news, analyses and "explainer" features - Sets health vertical strategy alongside the EIC and managing editor with the goal of covering core areas of interest, meeting readership targets and providing supporting content for existing site pages - Assists in top edits and copy edits across Live Science's other verticals (Human Behavior, Planet Earth, Animals, Archaeology, Space, Physics)

• Health News Editor

  • Jan 2023 - Mar 2023

  New York, New York, United States - News editor on the Live Science health desk commissions and edits health news stories from staff writers and freelancers, while also reporting stories - Sets health news strategy alongside the health channel editor - Curates Live Science’s daily email newsletter

• Staff Reporter

  • Sep 2019 - Jan 2023

  New York, New York, United States - Primarily covering health and medicine; also regularly covering basic research, neuroscience, environment, climate change and animal stories - Appearing in short science videos called "Particles" in which we summarize recent articles and occational segments of the Live Science podcast, "Life's Little Mysteries" - Previously host of our weekly COVID-19 update on Facebook Live, and voice of our special COVID-19 updates on "Life's Little Mysteries" - 28 livestream episodes, 2/6 -… Show more - Primarily covering health and medicine; also regularly covering basic research, neuroscience, environment, climate change and animal stories - Appearing in short science videos called "Particles" in which we summarize recent articles and occational segments of the Live Science podcast, "Life's Little Mysteries" - Previously host of our weekly COVID-19 update on Facebook Live, and voice of our special COVID-19 updates on "Life's Little Mysteries" - 28 livestream episodes, 2/6 - 8/13/2020 - Previously host of our "Coronavirus news of the week" pilot series



Freelance

• Journalist

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  - Bylines in Live Science, The Scientist, Science News, BrainFacts.org, Eos, Space.com, Mongabay, the San Jose Mercury News, Monterey County Herald, and the Asahi Shimbun GLOBE+ - Contributions to BrainCraft (YouTube channel)



Association of Health Care Journalists

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• AHCJ-New York Health Journalism Fellow

  • Apr 2020 - Apr 2020

  Austin, Texas, United States - Fellowship to attend the 2020 AHCJ conference *POSTPONED due to COVID-19



Society for Neuroscience

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• 2019 Society for Neuroscience Science Journalism Student Award Recipient

  • Oct 2019 - Oct 2019

  Chicago, Illinois, United States Journalism fellowship to attend and cover Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago



The Scientist

• Canada
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Jul 2019 - Sep 2019

  - contributed news articles to the website and several articles to the print magazine (Oct, Nov 2019 issues) - wrote daily "Nutshell" news stories and "Image of the Day" posts - wrote and scheduled social media posts and monitored social accounts - proofread articles for the print magazine



Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

• Japan
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Science Communication Fellow

  • Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

  Okinawa, Japan



University of California, San Francisco

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Science and Health Communication Intern

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area



The Mercury News

• United States
• Media Production
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Science Writing Intern

  • Apr 2018 - Jun 2018



Monterey Herald

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Assignment Reporter Intern

  • Jan 2018 - Mar 2018

  California



Stanford University School of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Science Writer Intern

  • Oct 2017 - Dec 2017

  Palo Alto, California



Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention (CSEA) at UF

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2016 - Apr 2017

  University of Florida Assisted PhD candidate Nina Thigpen with experiment investigating basic visual processing systems, SSVEP (Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials) - utilized Dense Array EEG and eye tracking



National Association of Science Writers

• United States
• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Undergraduate Travel Fellow

  • Feb 2017 - Feb 2017

  Boston



Sarasota Contemporary Dance

• Marketing Intern

  • Jul 2016 - Jul 2016

  Sarasota, Florida