I am an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about science and the environment. You can see my work in publications such as Scientific American, Science, and The Wall Street Journal. I also write for children’s publications such as Scholastic’s MATH and Choices magazines, and The New York Times for Kids.
A story I wrote for Chicago Health magazine, “Food as Medicine,” won a 2023 national communication award given by the National Federation of Press Women, and another, “Finding Refuge,” received an honorable mention. “Black Minds Matter,” an article I wrote for the same magazine, was a finalist for the Chicago Journalists Association’s 2022 Sarah Brown Boyden Awards.
I teach environmental journalism at Loyola University Chicago. As for my own education, I received a master’s degree from New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and studied environmental science at Wesleyan University. I live in Chicago with my family.
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