Experience:
Writing Sabbatical
- Took a sabbatical to focus on writing, family, health, and creative endeavors.
- Completed a novel, demonstrating initiative, commitment, and strong organizational skills.
- Expanded narrative writing and long-form editing abilities.
Podcast Producer and Host | Undark Magazine | May 2018-May 2022
- Story-edited, produced and hosted monthly feature-length documentary-style podcast on wide ranging scientific topics from the ethical challenges of legally defining an intellectual disability, to problems arising from land creation in Nigeria, to attempts to wrangle India’s mischievous monkeys.
- Reached thousands of monthly listeners, delivering award-nominated content and increasing listener base.
- Solicited and selected freelance pitches in line with the magazine’s mission to deliver true journalistic coverage of the sciences.
- Mixed all audio for publication and coordinated with fact check and promotional teams to ensure accurate and compelling content.
- Maintained digital archives.
Adjunct Lecturer | Princeton University | 2018
- Taught Climate Science and Communication seminar to class of fifteen undergraduate students.
- Prepared lectures on multimedia communication including podcast, video, and animation.
- Taught communication ethics, copyright, and fair use standards.
- Collaborated with co-instructor to plan curriculum, select guest lecturers, and evaluate student work.
Multimedia Editor | Scientific American | October 2016-December 2017
- Created videos to report on breaking research findings and explain scientific concepts to a broad general audience, from interstellar projectiles to the orchestra of the immune system.
- Researched, shot, script-wrote, edited, produced, and animated videos to reach an audience of hundreds of thousands.
- Assigned stories to team of freelancers and interns, top-editing work, managing day-to-day tasks, and training them in software, shooting, and storytelling techniques.
- Coordinated with news team and features team to collaborate on coverage.
- Generated monthly reports to track viewership and video success.
- Streamlined department workflow and created toolkits and templates to facilitate prompt story turnaround.
- Ensured proper documentation of assets and rights.
Video Intern | Scientific American | December 2015-September 2015
- Produced news and explainer videos.
- Optimized and versioned stories for social media platforms.
- Led data migration and archiving project for video department.
- Obtained rights to images and footage and maintained documentation database.
Print and Online Intern | Popular Science | September 2015-December 2015
- Pitched and wrote news stories and explainers for the web in a fast-paced, self-motivated environment.
- Wrote short pieces for the magazine, ensuring clarity and broad appeal.
- Covered science-art exhibits and lecture events.
Copy Editor | Scienceline | May 2015-December 2015
- Copy-edited stories, ensuring they conform to AP and Scienceline style guides.
- Wrote articles primarily focused on the environment and conservation, including peregrine falcon rehabilitation and invasive ladybeetles.
- Produced videos on injured bird rehabilitation, the microbial life of estuaries, and platypus biology.
ScienceWorld, SuperScience, and Science Spin Intern |Scholastic | May 2015-August 2015
- Wrote features and news stories on diverse topics from the mission to Pluto to the physics of dog sledding to the discovery of minuscule frog species.
- Pitched stories that would appeal to our Grade 3-10 audience.
- Wrote and edited video scripts, hands-on-experiments, educational games, and teachers’ materials.
Health and Life Sciences Editor | Scienceline | December 2014-May 2015
- Edited all biology and health articles for student-run news service.
- Wrote articles ranging from why cord blood is underused (syndicated on Scientific American) to why cougars and jaguars respond differently to human threats.
Associate News Producer | WNYU News | January 2015-June 2015
- Managed a team of 4 editors and 30+ reporters at NYU’s college radio station’s news division.
- Assigned stories, approved pitches, edited scripts and audio files.
- Wrote and produced stories.
- Packaged the best stories into 30-minute, twice-weekly episodes to air on FM radio.
- Led pitch meetings and equipment and software training sessions.
Producer | The Doppler Effect | September-December 2014
- Produced content for a science-focused FM radio show, including a 15-minute feature on the resilience of subway rats.
- Pitched ideas and edited stories.
- Assisted executive producer in training sessions on audio production software.
Media Relations Intern | American Museum of Natural History | July-September 2014
- Interviewed museum scientists and wrote blog posts. Monitored online, television, and print news sources for the museum’s presence, including tracking metrics on articles that mention the museum.
- Performed administrative tasks for the communication department.
- Assisted in arranging interviews and meetings between members of the press and museum staff.
Summer Research Assistant |Caudy/Rosebrock Lab Group | June-August 2012
- Designed experiments to explore an original research question based on self-initiated observational data to identify factors that influenced mother-daughter cell separation issues in yeast crosses.
- Streamlined existing experimental procedures, which required precise record-keeping and a strong understanding of the underlying biological processes.
- Created and presented a poster to peers and faculty outlining the summer’s research.
Education:
New York University | M.A. in Journalism
Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program, Valedictorian
Princeton University |B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Skills:
Creative Software and Multimedia:
Adobe Creative Suite
Live switching and streaming
Scriptwriting
Field production
Directing
Graphic animation
Claymation and paper collage animation
Sound design
Voice acting
Social media video
Rights and archive management
Miscellaneous:
Copy editing
Speedy transcription
Event coverage
Conversational Spanish
Baking perfect cinnamon rolls
Surviving wild horse stampedes