I have worked as an independent journalist for nearly 15 years, reporting from 4 continents for a range of publications. I specialize in environmental disasters, mental health, eating disorders, and dialysis. In 2020-21, I was a year-long fellow with the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. My work has been supported with grants from the Institute on Journalism and Natural Resources, the National Institute of Health Care Management, the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and more.

Special Project with Undark magazine

Profit and Loss: America on Dialysis

Kidney disease affects millions of Americans, but corporate capture of dialysis, along with disparities in treatment and transplant access, mean that not everyone's journey is the same.

Some anorexia patients want the right to die. A few doctors are willing to listen.

*Winner, Best Feature Consumer/Health, Large Division, Association of Health Care Journalists 2024

Experts are divided on whether the illness can be considered terminal, raising fundamental questions over bodily autonomy and treatment.

Awards

“Life After Rape: The Sexual Assault Issue No One's Talking About,” Women’s Health, September 2016

•2017, Front Page Awards, Newswoman’s Club of New York, Best Feature

•2018 Folio Award, Best Article Series

“Uncertain Inheritance: Epigenetics and the Poisoning of Michigan,” Undark, December 2017

•2018, Science in Society Journalism Awards, Honorable Mention, Long-form Feature

“Saving Mexico’s Lost World,” bioGraphic, February 2020

•2021, Science in Society Journalism Awards, Honorable Mention

“Profit and Loss- Dialysis in America,” Undark, December 2020

•2021, Science in Society Journalism Awards, Honorable Mention, Best Series

“Inside a Facebook ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ for Cat Drugs,” (OneZero, July 2020)

•2021, Best Feature, Cat Writers’ Association

“Some anorexia patients want the right to die.” (Guardian, July 2023)

•2024, Association for Health Care Journalists Winner, Best Health Feature, Large Publication

Other selected clips

Blood Money- How dialysis clinics are making a killing off of dying patients. (Mother Jones, May 2024)

Are insects conscious? (Noema, Jan 2023)

Is precision public health the future — or a contradiction? (Nature, Jan 2022)

Evolution ‘Landscapes’ Predict What’s Next for COVID Virus (Quanta, Jan 2022)

The controversial new clinical trials that promise faster results (New Scientist, Oct 2021)

To beat back Covid, we need more than antibodies (NatGeo, August 2020)

Inside a Facebook ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ for Cat Drugs (OneZero, July 2020)

Can We Save the Woodrat without Slaughtering Cats? (Scientific American, April 2020)

Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive Over Decades-Old Fire (Quanta, April 2019)

Death, statistics and a disaster zone: the struggle to count the dead after Hurricane Maria (Nature, February 2019)

How can you treat someone who doesn’t accept they are ill? (Mosaic, August 2018)       

The sparrow with four sexes (Nature, November 2016)

 A grown-up approach to treating anorexia (Mosaic, March 2016)