Mary Engel Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

I write for print and online publications. I also write and edit issue guides and white papers for the Kettering Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group focusing on what it takes to make democracy work.

Greater Seattle Area

As a staff writer for Fred Hutch News Service, I reported and wrote original stories about cancer in Africa, the search for an HIV vaccine and cure, and the role infections play in cancer, among other topics, for Fred Hutch's public web site, print magazine, and social media outlets.

Greater Seattle Area

Developed communications strategies for The Pew Charitable Trusts’s U.S. Arctic program, which advocated to protect Alaska's offshore waters. Worked with campaign team members in Alaska, Seattle and Washington D.C. to research, write, and edit fact sheets, talking points, op-eds, web features, blog posts, press releases, and backgrounders. Managed a major video project and coordinated advertising campaigns, briefings, panels, and teleconferences. Maintained working relationships with media and… Show more Developed communications strategies for The Pew Charitable Trusts’s U.S. Arctic program, which advocated to protect Alaska's offshore waters. Worked with campaign team members in Alaska, Seattle and Washington D.C. to research, write, and edit fact sheets, talking points, op-eds, web features, blog posts, press releases, and backgrounders. Managed a major video project and coordinated advertising campaigns, briefings, panels, and teleconferences. Maintained working relationships with media and with scientists, environmental groups, Alaska Native sources, and other stakeholders. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

Staff writer (2006-2009)Reported and blogged on health policy and medicine for the fourth-largest newspaper in the country, including stories on the uninsured crisis, emergency room crowding, cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes/obesity, pandemic and seasonal flu.Editorial writer, main edition (2001-2005)Collaborated with other members of the editorial board to develop the paper’s positions on local, national, and international issues, including political endorsements. Researched and wrote… Show more Staff writer (2006-2009)Reported and blogged on health policy and medicine for the fourth-largest newspaper in the country, including stories on the uninsured crisis, emergency room crowding, cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes/obesity, pandemic and seasonal flu.Editorial writer, main edition (2001-2005)Collaborated with other members of the editorial board to develop the paper’s positions on local, national, and international issues, including political endorsements. Researched and wrote prize-winning, results-oriented editorials on racial injustice at a public hospital, malaria in Africa, and gang violence. Regularly met with government, business, and civic leaders. Interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered and spoke on panels about gangs, local politics, and the future of Los Angeles. Editorial page editor, San Fernando Valley edition (1999-2001)Wrote and edited regional editorial pages. Managed budget, staff, and freelancers. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

Wrote and edited a magazine for graduate students, along with fact sheets, guides, correspondence, and other Graduate Division publications.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

Researched and wrote about healthcare reform, the environment, education, politics, and the arts for Alaska’s largest newspaper.

Knight Science Journalism Fellow At Mit (A Competitive, Academic-Year Fellowship), Studied Global Health, Bioethics, Climate Change, Human Rights And Other Science Topics

Activities and Societies: included travel to Costa Rica to examine effects of climate change on rain forests, followed by a summer.

B.A., American Studies