Carrie is an award-winning public health journalist with bylines in The Atlantic, The New York Times, National Geographic, Undark, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Nature, Science, Think Global Health, and more. She has an academic background in biochemistry and epidemiology, working in research labs before moving to journalism. In 2020, Carrie received a grant from the National Institute of Health Care Management to investigate the dialysis industry. In 2020-21, she was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT investigating the multigenerational impacts of a chemical disaster in Michigan. In 2022, Carrie was a national fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center for Health Journalism where she investigated the practice of involuntary discharge from dialysis, combining interviews with data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. She has spent the last four years of her career primarily focused on the dialysis industry in the U.S., giving her unparalleled insight into kidney disease and its treatment. Carrie has reported from four continents, won several national awards for her journalism (including Best Feature, Large Outlet from the Association for Healthcare Journalists in 2024).

When Carrie isn’t writing, she enjoys cycling, kayaking, hiking, knitting, painting, and annoying her cat. She lives in Virginia with her husband.