Audio Producer, Journalist, and Science Writer

What I’m up to: September 2025

Photo by Miles Price

Two steady gigs have kept me busy lately. First, I’m working as a contract editor for Nashville Public Radio. Second, I’ve been writing a weekly newsletter for Everstream Analytics about potential supply-chain disruptions.

Here’s a quick look back at some of my other recent hustles and interests:

  1. Most recently, I mixed the final four episodes of the podcast American Shrapnel, hosted by author Becca Andrews and two-time Pulitzer winner John Archibald. More on that work here.

  2. Before that, I fact-checked The Country In Our Hearts, a podcast series from Nashville Public Radio on how the city became home to this hemisphere’s largest Kurdish diaspora.

  3. I’ve also been hosting on-air at Nashville Public Radio for the first time in a decade, occasionally filling in during All Things Considered. This work is close to my heart as it’s the same place I started as an intern and cub reporter back in 2008.

  4. One day in spring, amid flash flooding and a string of tornado warnings, I reported some news for The New York Times and got a couple of small bylines. Cross that off my bucket list.

  5. In late 2024, I took a class on Climate-Informed Decision-Making and Risk Management from the team at Probable Futures in partnership with Terra.do.

Whew. Did I mention I’m also doing some writing for another short Terra class that launches next month?

Four exciting things I did in 2023:

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  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:

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

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.

That skill set set me up to follow my curiosity and tell compelling stories in memorable ways, such as:

  • 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.

Outside that, I’ve written stories for the Monterey Bay Aquarium on subjects from sea otter research to ocean acidification, and also researched and written about paleontology for the Natural History Museum of Utah.

I’ve also worked for numerous tech companies—for instance, I was a freelance writer for Grammarly from 2016 to 2022. I’ve been a fact-checker for Outside magazine and appeared on such shows as Science Friday and PBS NewsHour. And I was the technical producer in charge of scripting, recording, and mixing more than 60 episodes of Visit California’s tourism podcast, California Now.