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Welcome to my website. I’m a freelance journalist based in San Francisco, covering science, the environment, and technology. I’m a seasoned journalist, with experience as a freelancer and as a magazine staffer. I have extensive experience reporting, writing, and editing science and technology news and features, and recruiting and mentoring reporters and freelancers.

Most recently, I was senior correspondent at C&EN, where I served as editorial lead on special issues including one celebrating LGBTQ+ chemists and another about adapting to climate change. My reporting on air pollution inequality and my editorial leadership of Trailblazers, a project highlighting the life and work of chemists from under-represented groups, won two awards for the magazine. I have recruited freelancers; mentored interns and young writers; edited news and features; and written cover stories and news about the environment, Earth science, electronics, and of course, lots of chemistry.

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About the header: This image of undersea creatures comes from the works of 19th century natural historian Ernst Haeckel. Thanks to Angela Tieri for making the header and helping set up this website a long time ago. Someday I will learn how to use it.