Scientist
After eight years as a biologist, I dropped out of a Ph.D. program at U.C. Berkeley. I left to pursue a career in writing.
I’m currently an editor at WIRED and was previously a fellow at Mother Jones. Focusing on science and politics, my writing has been featured in Slate, Scientific American, Teen Vogue, and Sierra magazine, among other outlets.
I returned to journalism after working in science communication at the NIH. I choose to leave in February of 2025 in response to the policies of the Trump administration, which I wrote about for Slate, and I spent the next year reporting on the state of the federal workforce. One story I wrote about federal unions won the 2025 Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize.
While I’m primarily a journalist, I’ve written personal essays and pieces of fiction that have been published in anthologies and literary journals, and I currently serve as an assistant editor at Wallstrait Literary Journal.
I live in Oakland, California, make ceramics, and spend a lot of time staring into the ocean.