Have you Googled how elephant teeth work? Do that before you read my bio. It’s not relevant, it’s just really cool.

I’m Science Friday’s digital producer of engagement. I write reported digital articles, the Week in Science and the Science Goes To The Movies newsletters, as well as several short-run newsletters. I’m also a 2024 Early Career fellow at The Open Notebook.

I graduated from Columbia University with a focus on evolutionary biology of the human species. Evolution is our origin story, and my interest in how science influences our stories led me to journalism. I gravitate towards reporting about the past and present living systems on Earth. My other areas of interest include the human stories behind scientific discovery, emerging scientific fields, how science and social justice intersect, and the connections between art and science.

As an audience engagement team member at Science Friday, I also think a lot about how journalism can serve the general public, and offer them ways to communicate with experts and participate in science themselves. And that includes finding new ways to hand the mic to those historically excluded from science research and stories.

When I’m not thinking about monkey brains, I’m directing experimental plays, drawing memoir comics, doing yoga, and writing a blog about junk food.