{"id":8,"date":"2011-08-25T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susancosier.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:00:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2010-10-11-at-6.46.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-23 alignright\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-10-11 at 6.46.25 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2010-10-11-at-6.46.25-PM-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2010-10-11-at-6.46.25-PM-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/susancosier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2010-10-11-at-6.46.25-PM.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>I am an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about science and the environment. You can see my work in publications such as <em>Scientific American, Science,<\/em> <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, and <em>The New York Times for Kids.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A story I wrote for <em>Chicago Health<\/em> magazine, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/chicagohealthonline.com\/food-as-medicine\/\">Food as Medicine<\/a>,&#8221; won a 2023 national communication award given by the National Federation of Press Women, and another, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/chicagohealthonline.com\/finding-refuge-refugee-healthcare\/\">Finding Refuge<\/a>,&#8221; won an honorable mention. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/chicagohealthonline.com\/black-minds-matter\/\">Black Minds Matter,<\/a>&#8221; an article\u00a0I wrote for the same magazine, was a finalist for the Chicago Journalists Association&#8217;s 2022 Sarah Brown Boyden Awards.<\/p>\n<p>I teach environmental journalism at Loyola University Chicago. As for my own education, I received a master&#8217;s degree from New York University&#8217;s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and studied environmental science at Wesleyan University. I live in Chicago with my family.<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on Bluesky <a href=\"http:\/\/susancosier.bsky.social\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/susancosier.bsky.social\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1743726267298000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1skEy1ChPb9SZby7crQcxn\">@susancosier.bsky.<wbr \/>social<\/a>, on X <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/susancosier\">@susancosier<\/a>, message me on Signal at susancosier.22, or email me at <a href=\"mailto:susancosier@gmail.com\">susancosier@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">I am an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about science and the environment. You can see my work in publications&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susancosier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}