Hi! I’m a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, writing features and investigations about research, scholars, and how their work affects society. I’m interested in how knowledge gets produced, and all the problems that can occur along the way. I’ve written about looted antiquities in museums, the math wars, dishonest honesty research, the fossil-fuel and food industries’ infiltration of scholarship, misconduct inside a world-famous food-marketing lab, efforts to minimize COVID, Juul’s inner workings, and racism allegations in medical schools.

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.

Previously, I was a science and technology reporter at BuzzFeed News (R.I.P.), 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 (2019), noted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing (2021), and cited by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and NPR, among others.

I grew up in Southern California and studied comparative literature at UC Berkeley, where I also got my start in journalism at The Daily Californian. I love history, art, movies, and reading about all of the above.

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