📍Seattle

I am the science communication manager at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design. I'm also a freelance science writer and biotechnology consultant.

​My writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Forbes, Scientific American, and more than 30 other outlets. My science visualizations have appeared in The New York Times, Science Magazine, and other technical outlets. Before becoming a science writer, I studied "junk" DNA, how to turn agricultural waste into carbon-neutral fuel, and used computers to design new genes.

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