Oh Hey There

I am a freelance science and tech journalist and the assistant director of professional development for the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing.

Science, Technology and the FUUUUUUUUTURE

I also graduated from MIT’s science writing program, where I did my thesis on the science of white supremacy. My bylines can be found in Discover Magazine, Fast Company, NBC News, The New York Times, NOVA Next, Mental Floss, MIT Technology Review, Science Friday, The Verge, Wired Magazine, and Wired UK.

If you’re interested in the bad science that MDMA criminalization is based on, startups that are trying to grow crops in seawater, or a man who believes he’s discovered the fountain of youth for cats, this is the place for you.

Click here for my science and technology portfolio.

Beyond Journalism

I’ve also been a writer on some educational games, including Evolution, a phylogenesis-themed video game produced by PBS and the Harvard Deep Tree project, and Tech It!, an award-winning tabletop game produced by MIT and the Grenoble School of Management.

Click here to read more about those projects.

When I’m not writing about science, I run professional development programs for MIT’s science writing program where I get to help young writers break into science journalism.

I’m also a big fan of dogs. Look at this wonderful dog.

In a Former Life

Prior to transitioning to science, I covered finance, human interest and travel with the odd celebrity interview thrown in. My bylines include Entrepreneur Magazine, MSN.com, Playboy.com, The A.V. Club, Time Out Chicago, and the Chicago Sun-Times. In 2007, I was awarded first place in Business and Financial Writing in the Specialty Publications category at the Virginia Press Association’s annual news contest for a collection of articles that included this piece on the people behind Wal-Mart’s massive rebranding efforts.

If you’re looking for information on whether you need a student loan for a kindergartener (no, absolutely not), the filthiest jobs in Chicago, or why one man has a garage filled with faceless Chuck E. Cheese robots, click away.

Who Goes There?

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Bam. Another wonderful dog

BOOKS!

MIT Kids Press / Candlewick Press, Sept. 2022

Ages: 9-12, Grades 4-7

GAMES!

Tech It! (tabletop game)

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Tech It! is an educational card game designed to teach audiences about how both common and cutting edge technologies work. As the Game Writer, my role involved contributing to game design, creating in-game text, and writing a lengthy supplemental guide that explains how 75 technologies, ranging from accelerometers to brain-computer interfaces, work. Tech It! was developed as a joint initiative between the Grenoble School of Management and MIT, and was released in Europe and North America in 2016. The game won the 2016 AMBA Pedagogical Innovation Award.

 

Evolution (video game)

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Wrote text on puzzles in the phylogenesis-themed video game, Evolution. Created in collaboration with the Harvard Deep Tree project, the game was released in April, 2015, and teaches common ancestry through a series of interactive family tree puzzles. Evolution was nominated for 2016 Games for Change Awards in the Best Learning Game and People’s Choice categories.

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