Hi! I’m an award-winning senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, writing features and investigations about scholarship, scholars, and society. I’m interested in understanding researchers whose ideas are provoking debate inside and outside their disciplines, and in illuminating how knowledge gets produced (as well as all the problems that can occur along the way). I’ve tackled these themes in deeply reported stories about antisemitism studies, federal science funding cuts, misinformation, looted antiquities, math, dishonest honesty research, the replication crisis, the social media/mental health debate, studies backed by the fossil-fuel and food industries, and efforts to minimize COVID.

Send me ideas! I’m always looking to tell important stories that aren’t getting covered, and I have experience working with sensitive and confidential sources.

I used to be a science and technology reporter at BuzzFeed News, and before that, a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. I am a winner of the 2022 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, which honored a five-year span of “ambitious, responsible, high-impact investigative journalism done with keen insight into the culture of health and science.” My stories have been anthologized in The Best American Food Writing, noted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and cited by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and NPR, among others.

I live in San Francisco, grew up in Southern California, and studied comparative literature at UC Berkeley, where I also got my start in journalism at The Daily Californian.

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