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I'm a 2004 graduate of the UC Santa Cruz Science Writing program, and for the past couple of years have been a Cambridge-based freelance science journalist. In one of my few brushes with fame, Noam Chomsky asked me, "So, are you making a living at that?" I'm happy to report that, yes, I am. I like writing about nearly any area of science, but physics has a special place in my heart since I'm still trying to justify those four years spent on grueling calculations for my bachelor's degree several years back. Lately, my main obsessions have been climate change and energy technologies, but I also write about materials science, evolutionary biology, and Antarctica. The main outlets I write for now are National Geographic News, New Scientist, Nature Network Boston, and Science. Before Cambridge, I lived off and on in San Francisco, with an autumn in Geneva, Switzerland, two springs and a summer in Cambridge, England, and a month in Berlin, Germany. This summer I'm moving to Pakistan, which is a long story. During college, I discovered I have a savant-like ability to write backwards and upside-down, even in cursive. I still haven't found a use for this, but I did get to show it off at the Ig Nobel Prize talks at MIT. My card is over there on the right, if you want to contact me. (Click on it to see a larger version.) In case you're curious for more info, here's a bare-bones CV:
EDUCATION Graduate Certificate in Science Writing
JOURNALISM WORK Freelancer for National Geographic News, New Scientist, Science and other publications (September 2005 – present)
JOURNALISM INTERNSHIPS Science Magazine (February – August 2005)
LAB WORK University of California, San Francisco
OTHER JOBS Powell's Books, the "City of Books" in Portland, Oregon |
