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 currently the associate newsletter editor at Scientific American. Until 2025, I was a digital producer of engagement at Science Friday. There, I reported digital articles, wrote the Week in Science and the Science Goes To The Movies newsletters, and initiated several short-run newsletters. I was a 2024-2025 Early Career fellow at The Open Notebook.

I graduated from Columbia University with a focus on evolutionary biology of the human species. 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.

Having earned my stripes doing audience engagement work (and a lot of it for public media), I think a lot about how journalism can serve the general public, offer them ways to communicate with experts, and help them 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 and performing in experimental plays, drawing memoir comics, doing yoga, and writing a blog about junk food.