📍Seattle

I am the science communication manager at the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington. I'm also a freelance science writer and biotech consultant. My writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Forbes, Scientific American, and more than 30 other outlets. As a 2018 AAAS Mass Media fellow, I reported on the progress and process of science at the Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Before becoming a science writer, I studied "junk" DNA, how to turn plants into fuel, and, for my Masters, used computers to design new genes.

COVID-19 Vaccine

I participated in the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine trial. You can read about my first injection here and my much more dramatic second injection here.