📍Seattle

I am the science communication manager at the Institute for Protein Design. Our work was a runner-up for Science Magazine's 2016 Breakthrough of the Year (thanks, gravitational waves) and was recently selected as part of The Audacious Project, the successor to the TED Prize.

I'm also a freelance science writer and biotech consultant. My writing for The Conversation has appeared in Scientific American, Fast Company, Salon and more than 30 other online outlets. As a 2018 AAAS Mass Media fellow, I reported on the progress and process of science at the Philadelphia Inquirer. As a columnist and special advisor for SynBioBeta, I cover the cultural and economic forces shaping synthetic biology.

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

I'm a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the Northwest Science Writers Association.