Science Writer, Journalist, and Audio Producer

Updated January 2024

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Four exciting things I did in 2023:

  1. I accepted a staff role as lead climate writer at Terra.do, the online climate school that helps people learn and do more about the climate crisis. (I first began freelancing there in 2021.)

  2. I also started freelancing for the Natural History Museum of Utah. (See those samples here.)

  3. I presented a story live onstage at KQED as part of the launch of my friend and former editor Olivia Allen-Price’s book Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area. Along with a new piece I wrote for the book, it includes several stories on science and natural history I originally told on the podcast.

  4. After four years and more than 60 episodes, I retired from my role as the technical producer for California Now, the tourism podcast of Visit California. (More on that work is here.)


Stuff I’ve done in the past:

I’ve written stories for the Monterey Bay Aquarium on subjects from sea otter research to ocean acidification. I’ve also worked for numerous tech companies—for instance, I was a freelance writer for Grammarly from 2016 to 2022. And I’ve been a fact-checker for Outside magazine and appeared on such shows as Science Friday and PBS NewsHour.

I have more than a decade of experience in public radio, including:

  • Covering wildfires, drought, and self-driving cars for The California Report and KQED Science in San Francisco.

  • Telling detailed stories about dinosaurs, the ice age, and California trees on KQED’s Bay Curious podcast.

  • Reporting and voicing spot news stories about NASA’s New Horizons space probe for NPR’s national newscast unit.

I spent the first six years of my career at Nashville Public Radio, where I was a reporter and substitute host. I still work for them occasionally, like when I fact-checked this investigation in 2020.

I hold degrees in journalism and Spanish from Middle Tennessee State University and am based in Nashville, Tennessee.