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New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

Write and edit scripts for short animated movies on a wide variety of science and health topics. Develop art direction in collaboration with animators. Record and edit audio. Coordinate movie production across several teams and streamline work processes.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Worked to boost CSHL's digital presence: Pitched, conducted interviews, and wrote stories for the Lab's blog and main website. Wrote, adapted, and posted content for CSHL's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. Created and co-hosted the Webby-nominated Base Pairs podcast, which tells stories of CSHL science.

Greater New York City Area

Reported and wrote news and feature stories on tight deadlines. Scheduled and conducted numerous interviews including some for videos. Assigned stories to and managed freelance science writers. Edited and wrote headlines for science stories.

Greater New York City Area

Reported on neuroscience and psychology topics for Scientific American MIND magazine and web, as well as other scientific research for Scientific American magazine and online. Responsibilities also included social media status updates.

Greater New York City Area

Pitched, wrote, and fact checked stories for both web and print in Audubon’s award-winning bimonthly magazine, circulated among the organization’s 500,000 members.

Ithaca, New York Area

Responsible for choosing topics, writing articles, and designing the entire layout of the summer 2014 issue of the College of Agriculture and Life Science (CALS) magazine, periodiCALS. The magazine has a circulation of 30,000.Maintained the responsibilities first taken on as a student writer (see below)

Ithaca, New York Area

Worked on both internal and external relations program of the college. Emphasis on writing, including assignments for the college's blog, Cornell University's alumni newsletter, and the Cornell Chronicle.

Ithaca, New York Area

Wrote blog posts for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s K-12 education program about both science and education topics, developed curricula and webinars for educators, analyzed teacher and student survey data.

Ithaca, New York Area

Collected and analyzed data for chemical ecology research focusing on interactions between plants and insects, and helped design experiments. Lab procedures included cardenolide extraction and DNA isolation.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Activities and Societies: Watermargin Cooperative

Workshop Led By Veteran Science Journalists, Science Writing