I’m an award-winning science journalist with over a decade of experience.

Currently, I’m the story editor for Sierra Magazine, where I commission and edit freelancers reporting on climate science, public health, environmental justice, conservation, and Indigenous affairs for our quarterly print magazine and website. I also work part-time as an expert journalist with the Ag & Water Desk, a journalism collaborative covering the Mississippi River Basin, where I mentor Report for America fellows and support their reporting.

For nearly six years prior, I was 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, as with a book, but distributed in the style of a glossy magazine. Head over to my Special Projects page to check out this unique 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, building out the centenarian magazine's strategy for social media and video—doing both the production myself and managing audience engagement partnerships with other publications (in other words: I’m a survivor of the “pivot to video” era, and therefore a card-carrying millennial journalist). I also did web production and regular reporting at Tech Review, and 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 science journalism fellowships at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria; the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; and Vermont Law & Graduate School’s Environmental Law Center in South Royalton, Vermont. In September 2025, I’ll head to NYU’s Stern School of Business to learn about climate finance.

Photo by Timothy O’Connell