about

I'm a paleontologist-turned-journalist who tells scientific stories around the world through an analytical lens. I was a Roy W. Howard Fellow at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and received my master’s in investigative journalism in December 2020. I am currently the enterprise reporter at The Transmitter, a neuroscience research news publication supported by the Simons Foundation.

Have a peek at my portfolio for my most recent stories.

I was a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation, Newton International Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a Columbia Science Fellow. I earned my Ph.D. in comparative biology at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. Before that, I received my bachelor’s degree in geological sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I live in the New York City area with my husband and son.

Website cover image is by Stefan Jennings Batista.