SciCom Alumni by Last Name

This list shows the diverse careers pursued by SciCom grads. About 40% of our students came to us with Ph.D.s, 30% with master's degrees, and 30% with bachelor's degrees. Women have outnumbered men by about three to one, and biologists have outnumbered physical scientists and engineers by about the same ratio.

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Amy Adams ('96) B.A., biology, Whitman College; M.S., genetics and development, Cornell University; internship: Monterey Bay Aquarium; jobs: freelance and marketing communications writer, Clontech; department editor, Genetic Health; science writer, Stanford Medical School; communications manager, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine; current job: director of science communication, Stanford University. Author of one book: The Human Muscular System.

Robert Adler (’99) B.S., physics and mathematics, University of New Mexico; Ph.D., psychology, UC Berkeley; internships: NASA Ames, California Wild, New Scientist (London). Currently freelancing and writing books. His 1988 book, Sharing the Children: How to Resolve Custody Problems and Get On With Your Life, was reprinted by Author House. Other books: Science Firsts: From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation (Wiley & Sons, 2002); Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome (Wiley & Sons, 2004).

Nsikan Akpan ('14) B.A., biology, Bard College; Ph.D., pathobiology and molecular medicine, Columbia University; internships: Science News, NPR; first job: reporter/producer, PBS NewsHour, Washington, D.C.; current job: Science editor, National Geographic.
WEB SITE: http://nsikanakpan.com

Sue Goetinck Ambrose ('94) B.A. biology, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., molecular genetics, Washington University in St. Louis; internship: The Dallas Morning News; first and current job: staff writer, The Dallas Morning News.

Jan Ambrosini (’83) B.A., biology and environmental studies, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Not Man Apart (newsletter of Friends of the Earth); jobs: publications coordinator, Agroecology Program, UC Santa Cruz; freelance editor for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; associate director, Engineering Public Affairs, UC Berkeley; currently UC Berkeley communications director for the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and freelance editor for nonprofit and university clients.

Anil Ananthaswamy (’00) B.Tech, electronics, IIT-Madras, India; M.S.E.E., University of Washington; internship: New Scientist; freelance and San Francisco correspondent for New Scientist; staff writer, then physical sciences news editor, then deputy news editor for New Scientist in London; currently on retainer at New Scientist and freelancing. Author of The Edge of Physics (Houghton Mifflin, 2010), named the top physics book of 2010 by Physics World, U.K., and The Man Who Wasn't There (Dutton, Penguin Random House, 2015) Delivered this TED talk in India.

Sherri Willard Argyres (’92) B.S, microbiology, Oregon State University; M.A., microbiology and molecular genetics, Harvard; internship: Associated Press; jobs: communications coordinator, Office of the Dean of Students, University of Oregon; assistant director, Office of Student Retention Programs, University of Oregon; current job, head advisor and program coordinator, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University.

Christie Aschwanden (’98) B.A., biology, University of Colorado, Boulder; internship: KGNU radio, Boulder; first and current job: national freelance writer. Clients include Health, Science online, HMS Beagle, High Country News, Washington Post, The New York Times, Runner's World, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Science writer for FiveThirtyEight.
WEB SITE: http://www.christieaschwanden.com/

Bethany Augliere ('16) B.S., wildlife science, Virginia Tech; M.S., marine biology, Florida Atlantic University; internship: EARTH Magazine; first and current job: researcher, Schoolyard Films, and freelance writer/photographer.
WEB SITE: http://www.bethanyaugliere.com

Becky Bach ('14) B.A., biology and government, Wesleyan University; M.S., ecology, UC Davis; internship and current job: digital media specialist, Stanford University School of Medicine.
WEB SITE: http://beckybach.org

Daniel Bachtold ('02) M.S. and Ph.D., zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland; internships: ZDF television, Spektrum der Wissenschaft (German edition of Scientific American), Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, European news office of Science; first and current job: science writer/editor for Tages-Anzeiger, daily newspaper in Zurich.

Lisa Bain (’83) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; M.A., immunology, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; internship: Milwaukee Journal (AAAS Mass Media Fellow); jobs: associate editor, UCSF Magazine; science writer, University of Pennsylvania Health System; research project manager, The Deafness & Family Communication Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; current job: grant writer and scientific editor at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Author of three books about parenting children with special needs.

Mitzi Baker ('96) B.S., biology and psychology, Johns Hopkins University; internships: Stanford University Medical Center, Health; jobs: Health; public information officer, UC Davis; AIDS writer, UC San Francisco; marketing communications writer for a biotech company; freelance projects ranging from 8th-grade-level encyclopedia articles to medical education. Most recent job: science writer, Stanford University Medical Center. Currently freelancing from the SF Bay Area.

Oliver Baker (’99) A.B. and Ph.D., biophysics, UC Berkeley; internships: ScienceNOW, Science News; first job: freelancer for national magazines and academic/corporate clients; current job: science writer, National Psoriasis Foundation, Portland, OR.
WEB SITE: http://www.oliverbaker.com

Massie Santos Ballon ('08) B.A., molecular biology and biochemistry, Wesleyan University; science columnist, Philippine Daily Inquirer; internship: 23andMe (Mountain View, CA); first job: reporter for Cleantech.com in San Francisco; current job: science writer for the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, CA.

Brendan Bane ('16) B.S., ecology and evolutionary biology, UC Santa Cruz; internship: American Geophysical Union (AGU); first and current job: contract writer, AGU / Geological Society of America, and freelancing from Santa Cruz.
WEB SITE: http://brendanbane.wordpress.com

Marcia Barinaga (’87) A.B., biochemistry and environmental studies, Bowdoin College; Ph.D., molecular biology, UC San Diego; postdoctoral fellow, Stanford; internship: Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (AAAS Mass Media Fellow); jobs: West Coast correspondent for Nature; contributing correspondent for Science. Currently ranching in northern California.

Christine Bartels (’86) B.Sc., biological and chemical sciences, University of Tuebingen, Germany; M.S., biochemistry and biophysics, Oregon State University; Ph.D., linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; internship: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; jobs: DNA workshop coordinator, Cold Spring Harbor; executive editor, Springer-Verlag New York; commissioning editor, Cambridge University Press; linguistic analyst, InGenuity Systems; current job, International Quality Analyst, Google; freelance editor for scholarly presses.

Mary Beckman (’98) B.S., biology, UC Irvine; Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Colorado at Boulder; internships: The Exploratorium, San Francisco; Idaho National Laboratory (INL); jobs, science writer at INL; freelancing from Idaho; current job: senior science writer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.
WEB SITE: http://nasw.org/users/mbeckman/

Emily Benson ('16) B.A., behavioral science, Colgate University; M.S., biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks; internship: New Scientist (Boston); editorial fellowship: High Country News, Paonia, Colorado. Current job: Assistant Editor at High Country News.
WEB SITE: http://www.erbenson.com

Lou Bergeron ('95) B.S. geology, University of Illinois; M.S. earth sciences, UC Santa Cruz; jobs: freelance for New Scientist, ScienceNOW, Consumer Health Interactive, and others; editor for PC World; writer for SWARA, the magazine of the East African Wild Life Society; consulting geologist; science writer for Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford News Service. Currently freelancing from San Francisco.

Melissa Lutz Blouin (’91) B.A., chemistry, Oberlin College; internship: ZooGoer, Friends of the National Zoo; first job: health reporter and later lifestyles editor for the Northwest Arkansas Times; currently science and research communications manager, University of Arkansas and founder and editor of Research Frontiers. Winner of science writing awards from the Council for the Support and Advancement of Education and president of the University Research Magazine Association.

Genevieve Bookwalter ('02) B.S., biology, and B.A., rhetoric, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; internships: The Californian (Salinas, CA) and fellow with the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources; jobs: environment writer, the Union Democrat (Sonora, CA); staff writer, Santa Cruz Sentinel; associate editor, Patch.com, and contributing writer, HealthyCal.org; currently suburban reporter and editor, Chicago Tribune.

Kevin Boyd (’96) B.S., microbiology, UC Santa Barbara; internships: National Public Radio science desk, KQED-FM in San Francisco; jobs: freelancing; science writer at UC San Francisco;  exhibits writer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; current job: science writer at The Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Cassandra Brooks ('09) B.S., biology, Bates College; M.S., marine science, Moss Landing Marine Labs/California State University; internships: Children's Hospital Boston; U.S. National Park Service, Point Reyes; Seattle Times (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting intern); jobs: news director, The Last Ocean (Ross Sea, Antarctica) and contractor with U.S. National Park Service, Antarctic Ocean Alliance, and SACNAS. Currently a Ph.D. student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University.

Brandon Brown (’98) B.A., physics, Rice University; Ph.D., physics, Oregon State University; internship: Archipelago Productions, Monterey; currently professor of physics and director of external affairs for arts and sciences at University of San Francisco; conducts biophysics research on the electric sense of sharks, skates, and rays.

Martha Brown (’82) B.A., biology and sociology, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Southwest Fisheries Service (San Diego); jobs: writer/editor for Mussel Watch Project, California Department of Fish and Game; editor, Environmental Field Program, UC Santa Cruz; current job: senior editor, Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz; freelance writer and editor for natural history publications and organizations; field researcher for U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Midway Atoll.

Susan Brown ('05) B.A., music, DePauw University; Ph.D., neuroscience, University of Maryland; internship: San Diego Union-Tribune; jobs: freelance journalist for Nature, National Geographic News, Cosmos, New Scientist, and others; reporter, Chronicle of Higher Education; current job: associate director of science communications, Division of Physical Sciences, UC San Diego.

Lizzie Buchen ('09) B.A., psychology and biology, Tufts University; M.S., neuroscience, UC San Francisco; internships: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Discover, Nature; first job: freelancing for Nature, New Scientist, and others; next job: policy analyst and communications coordinator, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco; current job: legislative advocate for California ACLU on police practices.
WEB SITE: http://www.lizziebuchen.com/

Julia Calderone ('14) B.S., neuroscience, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Scientific American; first and current job: science writer, Tech Insider, New York.
WEB SITE: http://juliacalderone.com

Ewen Callaway (’07) B.A., biology, Colorado College; M.S., microbiology, University of Washington; internships: Nature, Science News; first job: biomedical reporter, New Scientist, Boston; current job: news and features reporter, Nature, London, and freelance contributor to BBC Future. Recipient of awards from the U.K. Medical Journalists' Association and Guild of Health Writers for his 2011 Nature article, Fighting for a Cause. 

Eileen Campbell (’83) B.S., zoology, UC Davis; master's work in marine biology, San Francisco State University; internship: Pacific Discovery (California Academy of Sciences); jobs: writer and exhibit developer, Monterey Bay Aquarium; interpretive coordinator for new exhibits at the San Francisco Zoo; currently senior science writer, San Francisco Exploratorium. Principal of Farallon Media, which provides writing, exhibit planning, video and web production.

John C. Cannon ('08) B.S., biology, The Ohio State University; internships: Los Alamos National Laboratory news office, U.S. National Park Service Point Reyes National Seashore; first job: freelance writer and radio reporter in Pacific Grove, CA; now environment reporter based in central Africa for mongabay.com and elsewhere.

Alice Cascorbi (’95) B.A., biology, Carleton College; M.S., conservation biology, University of Minnesota; internships: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Sea Studios; freelance credits: Exploring magazine, ABCNews.com, Encarta online encyclopedia; jobs: exhibits writer, Chicago Academy of Sciences; writer, Monterey Bay Aquarium. Currently living in Portland, Oregon; freelancing and working in outreach for the Audubon Society of Portland.

Davide Castelvecchi (’04) Laurea, mathematics, University of Rome; Ph.D., mathematics, Stanford University; internships: Fermilab, Physical Review Focus; jobs: web editor, American Institute of Physics; freelance writer for Sky & Telescope, New Scientist, and Are We Alone?; physics writer, Science News; physics editor, Scientific American; current job: physical sciences reporter, Nature (London).
WEB SITE: http://sciencewriter.org

Chris Cesare ('15) B.S., physics, UCLA; Ph.D., physics, University of New Mexico; internship: Nature; current job: Director of Communications and Outreach, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland/NIST.
WEB SITE: http://www.chriscesare.com

Marissa Cevallos ('10) B.S., astrophysics, California Institute of Technology; internships: Orlando Sentinel (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting internship), Science News; jobs: health writer, Los Angeles Times; video producer, Catholic Charities West Virginia; now with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, Nashville, Tennessee.

Kenneth Chang (’95); B.A., physics, Princeton University; M.S., physics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; internship: (two-year Times-Mirror Metpro), first year: Los Angeles Times; second year: Greenwich Time (CT). Freelancing and a temporary job at The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) led to a stint at ABCNEWS.com and then his current job: science reporter, The New York Times.

Marina Chicurel (’99) B.S., basic biomedical research, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Ph.D., neurobiology, Harvard University; postdoctoral researcher, cell biology, Harvard; freelance writer and consultant for Science, Nature, the Hereditary Disease Foundation, and Affymetrix; current job: associate director for science, Hereditary Disease Foundation.

Adrian Cho ('99) B.A., physics, University of Chicago; Ph.D., physics, Cornell University; internships: Idaho National Laboratory, Science; contributor, New Scientist and Science; current job: staff writer, Science, based in Michigan.

Miyoko Chu (’93) B.A., biology, Yale University; Ph.D., integrative biology, UC Berkeley; internship, The Oakland Tribune; first job: science editor, Cornell Lab of Ornithology; now director of communications there. Author of Songbird Journeys (Walker & Company, 2006) and Birdscapes (Chronicle Books, 2008).

Sandra Chung ('10) S.B., brain and cognitive science and biology, MIT; M.S.P.H., environmental sciences and engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; internship: Idaho National Laboratory; second internship and first job: online community manager, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, Colorado; current job: web designer in Boulder.
WEB SITE: http://sandrachung.com/

Phil Cohen (’95) B.S., biology, MIT; Ph.D., molecular biology, UC Berkeley; internship: New Scientist; jobs: U.S. correspondent and then San Francisco bureau chief, New Scientist; senior science writer, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York; now working in New York's investment banking industry.

Krista Conger (’99) B.A., biochemistry, UC Berkeley; Ph.D., cancer biology, Stanford University; internship and first job: science writer for Stanford University Medical Center; second job: researcher, Health; currently senior science writer at Stanford Medical Center, based in Montana.

Robert Coontz (’90) B.A., mathematics, Swarthmore College; M.S., hydrology, Stanford University; internship and first job: an environmental newsletter in Scotland; other jobs: senior editor, The Sciences (former magazine of the New York Academy of Sciences); adjunct journalism professor, New York University; senior editor, Earth; freelance for New Scientist, American Scientist, IEEE Spectrum and others; member, board of advisors, Muse; current job: deputy news editor, physical sciences, Science.

Leigh Cooper ('15) B.A., biology and environmental studies, Saint Olaf College; Ph.D., ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Colorado, Boulder; internship: American Geophysical Union; first and current job: science writer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
WEB SITE: http://www.leighacooper.com

Julie Corliss (’89) B.A., biology, Oberlin College; internship: National Cancer Institute; jobs: research reporter, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; public affairs specialist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; medical writer for HealthNews, consumer health newsletter from the Massachusetts Medical Society; currently senior medical editor for Special Health Reports, published by Harvard Health Publications.

Rachel Courtland (’07) B.A., physics, University of Pennsylvania; M.S., physics, Emory University; internships: Idaho National Laboratory, Nature (Washington, D.C.); jobs: space reporter, New Scientist, Boston; associate editor, IEEE Spectrum, New York.

Louisa Dalton ('01) B.S., biochemistry, Brigham Young University; internship: Idaho National Laboratory; first job: science and technology reporter, Chemical & Engineering News; now freelancing from Virginia.

Amber Dance ('08) B.S., biology, Brown University; Ph.D., biology, UC San Diego; internships: Los Angeles Times (AAAS Mass Media Fellow) and Nature (Washington, D.C.). Now freelancing from southern California for Nature and the Los Angeles Times, and ALS reporter for the Alzheimer Research Forum. Winner of the 2010 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award from the National Press Foundation for science journalists under age 30.
WEB SITE: http://www.amberldance.com

Matt Davenport ('14) B.S., physics, Michigan Technological University; Ph.D., physics, UC Irvine; internship and first job: associate editor, Chemical & Engineering News (Washington, D.C.).
WEB SITE: http://mrmattdavenport.com

Alison Davis (’97) B.S., biochemistry, Virginia Tech; Ph.D., pharmacology, Georgetown University; postdoc, developmental biology, Stanford University; internships: Palo Alto Weekly, NASA Ames; jobs: science writer, NASA; staff science writer, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS); now a freelance science/policy/speechwriter. Clients include NIH, FDA, Presidential Commission on Bioethical Issues, Darwin Awards. Author of Always There: The Remarkable Life of Ruth Lillian Kirschstein, M.D. (NIH, 2011).

Lisa Davis (’85) B.S., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internships: Psychology Today, Science News; jobs: biology reporter, Science News; writer, editor, and then articles editor, Health (San Francisco); deputy executive editor, Prevention (New York); deputy editor, Reader's Digest. Freelance credits: Los Angeles Times, Discover, More, Real Simple, and O, the Oprah magazine.

Liz Devitt ('13) B.A., zoology, University of Vermont; D.V.M., Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine; internship: Nature Medicine; current job: freelancing from Santa Cruz and editor of UC Santa Cruz research magazine.
WEB SITE: http://www.lizdevitt.com

Ryder Diaz ('13) B.A., metropolitan studies, gender and sexuality studies, New York University; M.S., population biology, UC Davis; internships: KQED radio (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting intern), California Academy of Sciences; first job: exhibit developer, California Academy of Sciences.
WEB SITE: http://www.ryderdiaz.com

Erin Digitale ('08) B.Sc., biochemistry, University of British Columbia; Ph.D., nutrition, UC Davis; internships: The Oregonian (AAAS Mass Media Fellow) and Stanford University School of Medicine news office; first and current job: pediatrics writer for Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Recipient of a Silver Award in the 2010 CASE Circle of Excellence for this feature story in Stanford Medicine Magazine.

Laurie K. Doepel ('84) B.A., sociology, UC Santa Cruz; second-degree candidate, biology, University of Colorado, Boulder; internship: NIH Office of Communications; continued at NIH, first as science writer/editor for NIH Clinical Center, then as science writer/media liaison for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), then as media coordinator and senior advisor for research communications at NIAID; currently Senior Advisor for Science Communications, NIAID Office of the Director.

Pamela Donegan (’95) B.S., biology, College of William and Mary; M.A., vertebrate physiology and behavior, San Francisco State University; internship: Harvard Health Letter; jobs: managing editor of Catnip Newsletter from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine; freelance medical writer for Hippocrates; writer for HealthNews, consumer health newsletter from the Massachusetts Medical Society; currently catalog librarian for the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.

Nadia Drake ('11) A.B., biology, psychology, dance, and Ph.D., genetics and development, Cornell University; internship: Science News; jobs: astronomy reporter, Science News; science reporter, WIRED; current job: contributing writer, National Geographic, and author of Nat Geo's "No Place Like Home" blog.

Jennie Dusheck (’85) B.A., zoology, UC Berkeley; M.A., zoology, UC Davis; internship: Science News; first jobs: writer for a college-level textbook and editor, IMS News and Science Notes (five awards). Freelance work: features for Pacific Discovery, Science, Nature, and Natural History; book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle; coauthored three editions of a college-level introductory biology text, Asking About Life (2005).

Quinn Eastman (’04) B.S., chemistry, MIT; Ph.D. biochemistry, Yale; internship: Bakersfield Californian; first job: reporter, North County Times (Escondido, CA); current job: science writer, Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia.

Blake Edgar (’89) B.A., zoology and anthropology, UC Berkeley; internship: Pacific Discovery (California Academy of Sciences); first job: assistant then associate editor, Pacific Discovery; Science Writing Fellow at MBL, Woods Hole, MA; co-author of The Dawn of Human Culture (John Wiley, '02), From Lucy to Language (Simon & Schuster, '96), and Ancestors (Villard '94). Current job: senior science editor, University of California Press, acquiring books about biology, anthropology, and wine. 

David Egerter (’88) A.B., human biology, Stanford University; Ph.D., parasitology, UC Berkeley; internship: Medical World News; first job: assistant editor and then executive editor, Diagnostic Imaging (Miller Freeman, San Francisco); editor, MR magazine; publisher, Healthcare Education Products; senior editor, Prohealth; scientific services supervisor, Grey Healthcare West; senior vice president, Scientific Direction, ApotheCom Associates, LLC; currently principal, MedComm Strategic Consulting (pharma/biotech consultant, Oakland).

Rachel Ehrenberg (’03) B.A., botany and political science, University of Vermont; M.A., evolutionary biology, University of Michigan; internship: Dallas Morning News; job: science writer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; staff writer, Science News; Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, 2013-14; now freelancing from Boston. 

Eva Emerson (’94) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internships: The Californian (Salinas, CA), UPI science desk (Washington D.C.); jobs: science content coordinator, The Magic School Bus; writer/reporter, The Honolulu Weekly; writer and publications coordinator, California Science Center; senior science writer, University of Southern California; editor-in-chief, Science News; now editor-in-chief, Annual Reviews magazine, Palo Alto, CA.

Melissae Fellet ('11) B.S., microbiology and biochemistry, University of Florida; Ph.D., chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis; internship: New Scientist(San Francisco); now freelancing from Santa Cruz for Chemical & Engineering News, Chemistry World, Ars Technica, KQED QUEST, and others.
WEB SITE: http://www.melissaefellet.com/

Ava Ferguson (’84) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; M.A., education, San Francisco State University; internship: CNN (Washington, D.C. bureau); first job: researcher (later promoted to associate producer), Science and Technology Unit, CNN, Atlanta; then freelanced in Santa Cruz, specializing in producing science educational materials; then a senior exhibit developer, Monterey Bay Aquarium; now the aquarium's director of visitor research.

Cassie Ferguson (’96) B.A., biology and art, UC Santa Cruz; internships; NASA Ames and Harvard University News Office; jobs: science writer, Harvard Medical School; science writer and web developer, Harvard University news office; senior science writer, UC San Diego; senior writer, Caltech. Now freelancing and raising a family in Santa Fe.

Cat Ferguson ('14) B.S., neuroscience, Northeastern University; internship and first job: Retraction Watch, New York; current job: science reporter, BuzzFeed.

Marissa Fessenden ('12) B.S., interdisciplinary studies (biology and writing), Cornell University; internship: Scientific American; currently freelancing from Bozeman, Montana.
WEB SITE: http://marissafessenden.com

Helen Fields ('03) B.A., biology, Carleton College; M.S., biological sciences, Stanford University; internship: U.S. News & World Report; jobs: reporter, U.S. News & World Report; departments editor/writer, National Geographic; freelancing from Washington, D.C.; now senior science writer, Palladian Partners.
WEB SITE: http://heyhelen.com

Leslie Fink (’83) B.A., biology, James Madison University; internship: National Cancer Institute; jobs: National Institute for Child Health and Human Development; Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH); Chief of Communications, Human Genome Project (NIH); Chief of Communications, Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH); currently Head, Media Relations and Public Information, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, National Science Foundation.

Faye Flam (’88) B.S., geophysics, Caltech; internships: The Economist (London), Science News; jobs: news office, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Washington, D.C., bureau chief, ChemWeek; staff writer, Science; science writer, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of evolution blog and column, "Planet of the Apes." Author of The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man (Penguin, 2008). Currently contributing to WHYY public radio, the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, and Slate.com.
WEB SITE: http://www.fayeflam.com

Sheila Foster (’94) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; jobs: science writer at Sea Studios, Monterey, CA; editor/photographer/journalist for the Broome Advertiser, Australia; public information officer, Australian Institute of Marine Science; distance-learning content director for Archipelago Productions, Monterey; writer, Stanford Medical Center News Office; publicity director for the TV series "The Shape of Life." Now working in development for the organic food movement and running a bakery in Ashland, OR.

Karen Fox (’93) B.A., M.A., physics and English, Amherst College; internship: Santa Cruz Sentinel; jobs: Science; Science Report Radio; freelance science writer and web diva; current job: solar physics writer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Author of The Chain Reaction: Profiles in Nuclear Science (Grolier, 1998); The Big Bang: What It Is, Where It Came From, and How It works (John Wiley, 2002); Einstein: A to Z (co-authored with Aries Keck) (John Wiley, 2004); and Older Than the Stars (Charlesbridge, 2010).
WEB SITE: http://www.karenceliafox.com/

Roberta Friedman (’85) B.A., neuroscience, and Ph.D., pharmacology, Vanderbilt University; internships: NASA Ames, Stanford University news office; jobs included contributing editor for BioWorld and BioCentury; contributor to WebMD, CBS Healthwatch, Reuters, BioMedNet, and Doctor's Guide to the Internet. Magazine articles in Natural History and California Wild. Employed by The ALS Association to write on Lou Gehrig's disease, then freelanced for medical education clients. Roberta passed away in March 2013 after a long illness.

Paul Gabrielsen ('13) B.A., geology, Brigham Young University; M.S., hydrology, New Mexico Tech; internship: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; first job: science writer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.).
WEB SITE: http://paulgabrielsen.wordpress.com

Tia Ghose ('10) B.S., mechanical engineering, and B.A., Plan II, University of Texas at Austin; M.S., bioengineering, University of Washington; internships: The Scientist, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting internship); first job: homeland security researcher, Center for Investigative Reporting, Berkeley; current job: staff writer, LiveScience.com.

Helen Gibbons ('82) B.A., Earth science/natural history, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Aquaculture Program, UC Davis; jobs: editor, UCSC Environmental Field Program; geology instructor, Yosemite National Park; copy editor, Regis McKenna Public Relations, Palo Alto, CA; technical editor, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA; since 1995, outreach coordinator, writer, and editor, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Geology Center, Menlo Park and Santa Cruz.

Jessica Gorman (’97) B.A., chemical physics, Swarthmore College; internship: The Californian (Salinas, CA); jobs: reporter, Discover; chemistry and materials science writer, Science News; 2003-04 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT; current job: executive editor, Cancer Today, Philadelphia.

Anna Gosline ('04) B.Sc. Zoology, University of Toronto; internships: Public Library of Science (PLoS), New Scientist (London). Freelance clients included New Scientist, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, Scientific American MIND. Cofounder of the girl nerd science website Inkling Magazine. Now director of policy and research for the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation after completing an MPH at Harvard in 2010.

Katie Greene (’01) B.Sc., individual program of study, Harvey Mudd College; M.S., physical oceanography, University of Washington; internships: Popular Science, Science, Earth and Sky radio; now freelancing from San Francisco.

Liese Greensfelder (’99) B.A., plant science, UC Davis; M.S., horticulture/pomology, UC Davis; internship: California Academy of Sciences/California Wild; jobs: public information officer at UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, UC Davis; editor and graphic designer for Tree Rings, the journal of the Yuba Watershed Institute; co-editor of the 2010 book The Nature of This Place. Currently freelance editor and writer based on the San Juan Ridge, northern California.

Sean Griffing ('02) B.A. biology, Oberlin College; internship: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; freelance, Earth and Sky radio. Now a postdoctoral fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, focusing on the origin and spread of drug-resistant malaria.

Lisa Grossman ('09) B.A., astronomy, Cornell University; internships: New Scientist (Boston); Science News; jobs: science reporter, Wired.com (Seattle); space and physics reporter, New Scientist (Boston); currently U.S. physical sciences news editor, New Scientist.

John Gustafson (’83) B.S., astronomy, University of Arizona; M.A., astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Caltech public information office; jobs: public information writer, Lick Observatory; writer for the Keck Ten-Meter Telescope (Caltech and UC); director of public affairs, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); currently chief of staff for Experimental Physics Science Directorate at LANL.

Sarah Steinberg Gustafson (’83) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Science News; first job: public information writer and editor for the UC Natural Reserve System. Now based in Los Alamos; environmental and outdoors educator for elementary and middle schools and former director of Nature Odyssey program at Pajarito Enviromental Education Center.

Lila Guterman (’98) A.B., chemistry, Harvard University; M.S., chemistry, Caltech; internship, New Scientist (London); jobs: freelance writer; assistant editor, Modern Drug Discovery; senior reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education; senior writer, Palladian Partners, Inc.; senior editor, Chemical & Engineering News; deputy managing editor, news, Science News; now associate director, content development, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Winner, 2002 Evert Clark/Seth Payne award for young science journalists. Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, 2006-07.

Michael Hagmann (’98) Dipl., biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Zurich; internship: Discover; jobs: staff writer, Science; science writer, Sonntagszeitung, Switzerland's leading weekly newspaper; current job: head of Corporate Communications at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology.

Linley Erin Hall (’02) B.S., chemistry, Harvey Mudd College; internship: Stanford Medical Center news office; jobs: science writer, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University; freelance writer and editor in Berkeley; current job: editor at Annual Reviews, academic publisher in Palo Alto, CA. Author of Who's Afraid of Marie Curie? The Challenges Facing Women and Science in Technology.
WEB SITE: http://www.linleyerinhall.com

Laurel Hamers ('16) B.A., biology, Williams College; internship and first job: general assignment reporter, Science News.
WEB SITE: http://laurelhamers.com

Raven Hanna ('05) B.A., biochemistry, UC Santa Cruz; Ph.D., molecular biophysics and biochemistry, Yale University; postdoctoral work, UC Berkeley; internships: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Emergent Matter Project; first and current job: started business to communicate science through unusual means, based in Hawaii.
WEB SITE: http://www.madewithmolecules.com

Stephen Hart (’89) B.A., zoology; teaching certificate, biology; MAT, biology, all at the University of Washington; internship: Science News; freelance writer for about 20 years, specializing in science, medicine and technology.
WEB SITES: Olympic Natural History web site: https://onh.eugraph.com. The Animal Communication Project website, including the full text of his 1996 book The Language of Animals: https://acp.eugraph.com

Laura Helmuth (’98) B.S., biological psychology, Eckerd College; Ph.D., cognitive neuroscience, UC Berkeley; internships: Idaho National Laboratory, Science News and Science; jobs: editor for ScienceNOW and writer for Science; associate news editor at Science; senior science editor at Smithsonian; current job: science and health editor at Slate.

Melissa Hendricks (’88) B.A., biology, Wesleyan; internships: Science News, Psychology Today, Science Update (AAAS radio program); first job: senior science writer, Johns Hopkins Magazine; earned a gold medal from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for a feature about an aggression gene. Now freelancing for AARP Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, and others, and teaching for the graduate writing program at Johns Hopkins University.

Daniela F. Hernandez ('12) B.A., biology, Amherst College; Ph.D., neurobiology and behavior, Columbia University; internship: Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting intern); jobs: community reporter, WIRED; reporter, Kaiser Health News (San Francisco); science and tech reporter, Silicon Valley bureau, Fusion; current job: digital science editor, Wall Street Journal.

Peg Herring ('86) B.A., environmental science and biology, University of Virginia; M.S., journalism and literary non-fiction, University of Oregon; internship at UC Natural Reserve System; first job: freelance science writer and illustrator for agency and academic research. Coauthored two books: At the Crossroads of Science, Management, and Policy (Island Press 1999) and Forest of Time (OSU Press 2007). Currently assistant professor at Oregon State University and editor of the research magazine, Oregon's Agricultural Progress.

Donna Hesterman ('11) B.A., history, University of Florida; Master of Natural Resources, wildlife science, Auburn University; internship: Scripps Institution of Oceanography news office; first job: science writer, University of Florida news office; now a high school mathematics teacher.

Christian Heuss (’02) Dipl. Biol., biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Basel; Dr. sc. nat./PhD, neurosciences, University of Zurich; internships: ScienceNOW, Swiss Radio DRS, Swiss Television, Sonntags-Zeitung. Jobs: science correspondent for Swiss Radio DRS and freelance work for Swiss and German print media; now communications director for the Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute in Basel. Member of the board of the Swiss Association for Science Journalism.

Hannah Hickey ('05) B.S., physics, McMaster University; M.S., physical oceanography, University of Victoria; internship: Idaho National Laboratory; first and current job: engineering writer in the University of Washington news office.

Rusten Hogness (’93) M.A., history of science, Johns Hopkins; current job: freelance writer/producer for public radio; projects: California Bird Talk (radio series on bird communication), GleaningStories (radio and Web series on gleaning and sustainable agriculture).
WEB SITE: http://www.calbirdtalk.org

Bob Holmes (’92) B.A., zoology, University of Alberta; Ph.D., ecology, University of Arizona; internship: U.S. News and World Report. Currently a correspondent for New Scientist and freelancing from Edmonton, Alberta.

Carol Howard (’85) B.A., psychology, University of Minnesota; M.A., biology, UCSC; internship: Psychology Today; first job: deputy director of UCSC SciCom Program and editor of Science Notes. Author of Dolphin Chronicles (Bantam, 1996). Current job: science writer and communications coordinator for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.

Amanda Iles ('82) B.A., biology, UC San Diego; internship: California Sea Grant Program, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; jobs: life sciences editor and reporter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; writer, Regis McKenna public relations (Palo Alto, CA); now living in Ashland, OR, and working as a freelance marketing writer and communication consultant for (mostly) high-technology companies.

Mason Inman ('04) B.S., physics, UC Santa Barbara; internships: PLoS Biology, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, and Science (Cambridge, U.K); first job: freelancing from Cambridge, MA, for Science, New Scientist, and National Geographic News. Received a 2008-09 Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism to report on monsoon floods in Bangladesh. Now freelancing and blogging on climate and energy for the Huffington Post and National Geographic News.
WEB SITE: http://failinggracefully.com/

Robert Irion (’88) B.S., earth and planetary sciences, MIT; internship: Chicago Tribune (AAAS Mass Media Fellow); jobs: science writer at UC Santa Cruz; freelance magazine journalist and author in physical sciences and SciCom lecturer; SciCom director, 2006-2016; now director emeritus and program advisor. (See faculty list for longer bio.)

Natalie Jacewicz ('16) B.A., biology, Harvard College; internship: National Public Radio; currently attending NYU Law School (Furman scholar) and freelancing for NPR and The Atlantic.
WEB SITE: http://nataliejacewicz.com

Pat Janowski ('88) B.S., physics, UC San Diego; internship: IEEE Spectrum; jobs: Physics Today; freelance for Science, OMNI, the National Research Council, the Institutes of Medicine; the Association of Science-Technology Centers; freelance for The Sciences, Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, The Oregonian; American Foundation for AIDS Research; freelance for Yale University, Scientific American, Discover, and corporate clients.

Karin Jegalian (’98) B.S., biochemistry, UCLA; Ph.D., biology, MIT; internship: Dallas Morning News; jobs: Human Genome Project, National Institutes of Health, and freelancing for newspapers and magazines; associate editor, American Scientist; currently a freelance writer and consultant outside Washington, D.C.

Mari Jensen ('97) B.S., biology, Cornell University; M.S., ecology and evolutionary biology, and M.S., renewable natural resources studies, both at University of Arizona; internships: Dallas Morning News, Science News; jobs: newspaper/magazine freelancing; Metcalf Institute Environmental Reporting Fellow; reporter, Tucson Citizen; MBL Science Journalism Fellow; currently science writer/editor for the University of Arizona's College of Science.

Alla Katsnelson ('07) A.B., biology, psychology, and linguistics, Cornell University; Ph.D., neurophysiology, University of Oxford, U.K.; jobs: news editor, The Scientist; biomedical reporter, Nature; currently freelancing from Northampton, MA.

Sarah Jane Keller  B.A., biology, University of Montana; M.S., earth and planetary sciences, University of New Mexico; internships: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Conservation magazine, High Country News (Paonia, CO); current job: freelance journalist (High Country News, Center for Public Integrity), Bozeman, MT.
WEB SITE: http://www.sjanekeller.com

Jyllian Kemsley ('03) B.A., chemistry, Amherst College; Ph.D., chemistry, Stanford University; internship: Chemical & Engineering News; first job: freelancing for the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report (contributing editor) and the Santa Cruz Sentinel; current job: senior editor, West Coast bureau, Chemical & Engineering News.

Gina Kirchweger ('00) Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Vienna, Austria; internships: Universum Magazin, Vienna; P.M. magazine, Munich; freelance writer for overseas publications; jobs: director of scientific communications, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; head of science communications, Stowers Institute for Medical Research; currently communications officer, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA.

Beate Kittl (’99) M.S., biology, University of Basel, Switzerland; internship: Discover; jobs: Facts, a former Swiss news magazine; freelance nature and environment reporter in Bali, Indonesia, Latin America and Switzerland for major Swiss and German newspapers; science editor at the Swiss News Agency; currently doing media relations and public outreach for the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research.

Erica Klarreich (’01) B.A., mathematics, Brooklyn College; Ph.D., mathematics, State University of New York at Stony Brook; internship: Nature; jobs: journalist in residence, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley; mathematics correspondent, Science News; currently mathematics freelance writer, SF Bay Area, and writer for the Simons Foundation. Published in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 and The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011.
WEB SITE: http://ericaklarreich.com

Elise Kleeman ('05) B.S., geology, California Institute of Technology; internship: Discover; jobs: science writer for Pasadena Star News; freelance writer for NewScientist.com and others; recently completed a Ph.D. in neuroscience at UC Irvine.

Kerry Klein ('15) B.S., earth and planetary sciences, McGill University; internship: KQED public radio, Central Valley bureau, Fresno, CA; first and current job: news and environment reporter, KVPR public radio, Fresno.
WEB SITE: http://www.kerryklein.com

Gary Kliewer (’92) B.A., environmental studies, UC Santa Cruz; internship: AAAS radio, Washington, D.C.; jobs: public affairs, UC Santa Cruz; publisher, Coast Gardens Magazine; public information officer, Los Alamos National Laboratory. After serving as editor of publications for Southern Oregon University, in Ashland, he launched Caveat Press, publishing consumer health-care books.

Jonathan Knight (’97) B.A., biology, Oberlin College; Ph.D., molecular biology, UC Berkeley; internship, New Scientist, London; jobs: West coast correspondent for New Scientist (San Francisco bureau); contributing correspondent for Nature; currently teaching at San Francisco State University and freelancing.

Reto Kohler (’00) B.A., Ph.D., biology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland); internship: The Californian (Salinas, CA) and Facts (Switzerland's leading weekly newsmagazine); worked for Tages-Anzeiger, Switzerland's second largest daily newspaper. Wrote a widely reviewed and controversial biography about Walter Stuerm, Switzerland's best known criminal and jail activist; freelance science and people writer for Swiss publications. Current job: science editor for BLICK, Switzerland's largest newspaper.

Olga Kuchment ('10) B.S., chemistry, University of Kansas; Ph.D., chemistry, UC Berkeley; internships: International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy); University of Kansas news office; current job: science writer, Texas A&M AgriLife, College Station, TX.

Juhi Yajnik Kunde ('06) B.S., biochemistry and cell biology, UC San Diego; M.A., molecular, cellular and developmental biology, University of Texas at Austin; internship: The Scientist; freelance writer for the Baltimore Examiner, biotech industry, and nonprofits; jobs: writer/editor for the Prevent Cancer Foundation in Alexandria, VA; science writer for Spectrum Science Communications in Washington, D.C.; now freelance writer/editor for cancer-related nonprofits and stay-at-home mom.

Roberta Kwok ('08) B.S., biological sciences, Stanford; M.F.A., creative writing, Indiana University; internships: Idaho National Laboratory, Nature. First job: writer for This Week in Conservation Science at Conservation magazine; now freelancing from Seattle. Winner of 2010 Walter Sullivan Award for feature writing from the American Geophysical Union for a story in Nature.
WEB SITE: http://www.robertakwok.com

Esther Landhuis (’04) B.S., biological sciences, Stanford University, Ph.D., immunology, Harvard University; internship: San Jose Mercury News; most recent job: science reporter for the Alzheimer Research Forum. Now freelancing from Pleasanton (SF Bay Area) while raising two tweens.
WEB SITE: http://www.estherlandhuis.com

Brian Lee (’07) B.S., gerontology, University of Southern California; M.A., molecular, cellular and developmental biology, UC Santa Barbara; internship: Stanford University Medical Center; first job: writer and researcher for Threshold Enterprises / Planetary Formulas, Scotts Valley, CA; currently database technician, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, UCSC.

Jane Lee ('11) B.A., integrative biology and English, UC Berkeley; M.A., marine biology, UCLA; internships: San Jose Mercury News (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting intern), San Francisco Exploratorium,Science; first job: science writer and editor, National Geographic; current job: freelancing in the Los Angeles area.
WEB SITE: http://www.janejaelee.com

Hadley Leggett ('09) B.A., biochemistry and Spanish, Rice University; M.D., UC San Francisco; internship: Wired.com; currently raising her family in Seattle.

Mitch Leslie (’98) B.S., biology, University of Utah; M.A., zoology, University of Texas; first job: writer, Stanford University Medical Center; current job: freelance and contributing writer, Science.

Tanya Lewis ('12) Sc.B., biomedical engineering, Brown University; internships: Wired.com, Science News; jobs: science writer, LiveScience.com; science reporter, Business Insider; science reporter, The Scientist; current job: associate editor, Scientific American MIND (New York).
WEB SITE: http://tanyaalewis.com

Jane Liaw ('08) B.S., Earth systems, Stanford; M.P.H., environmental health sciences, UC Berkeley; internship: Sacramento Bee (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting intern); now working at UC Berkeley School of Public Health and freelancing.

Patricia Long (’86) B.A., psychology and social work; M.S., nutrition, Pennsylvania State University; internship, Psychology Today; first trade book, The Nutritional Ages of Women, Macmillan; jobs: freelance and then staff writer, Health; editorial director of Thrive, an online health and lifestyle magazine; current job: project manager, VA Hepatitis C and HIV web sites, UC San Francisco.

Greta Lorge ('03) B.A. human biology, Stanford University; M.S. neuroscience, University of Michigan; internships: California Wild, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WIRED; jobs: assistant research editor, WIRED; associate editor, Stanford Magazine; senior editor, MAKE Magazine; now freelancing from SF Bay Area.

Erin Loury ('12) B.S., biology, University of California, Davis; M.S., marine science, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories; internship: Los Angeles Times (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting intern); current job: communications director, FISHBIO (Santa Cruz).
WEB SITE: http://erinloury.com

Alisa Zapp Machalek (’94) B.S., biochemistry, Michigan State University; M.S., biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison; first and current job: science writer for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a division of NIH that supports basic biomedical research. Her NIGMS booklet, Inside the Cell, has won awards from the Society for Technical Communication.

Dana Mackenzie (’97) B.A., mathematics, Swarthmore College; Ph.D., mathematics, Princeton University; internship: American Scientist; jobs: freelance writer for Discover, Science, New Scientist, National Academy of Sciences; freelance editor for American Scientist. Author of The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be (Wiley, 2003), one of Booklist's four top science books for 2003 and one of Audible.com's best audio books for 2010. Published in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011.
WEB SITE: http://www.danamackenzie.com

Jyoti Madhusoodanan ('14) B.S., biochemistry, Gujarat University; M.S., biochemistry, Majaraja Sayajirao University of Baroda; Ph.D., biomedical sciences, State University of New York, Buffalo; internship: The Scientist; first job: freelance writer, San Jose; current job: science writer, UC San Francisco.
WEB SITE: http://smjyoti.com

Adam Mann ('10) B.S., astrophysics, UC Berkeley; internships: California magazine (UC Berkeley), Nature; first job: space and physics reporter, WIRED, San Francisco; currently freelancing from Oakland.

Jessica Marshall (’05) B.S.E., Princeton University; M.S. and Ph.D., UC Berkeley, all in chemical engineering; internships: ScienceNOW, New Scientist (San Francisco); jobs: lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota; environment reporter, Discovery News; freelancer for Nature, Food and Environment Reporting Network, PNAS, Twin Cities Public Television, and other clients; now assistant editor, Chemical & Engineering News.
WEB SITE: http://www.jmarshall.us

Beth Martin (’96) B.S., biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; internship: Sea Studios, science films, Monterey; first job: freelance; second job: communications manager at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3); currently writing articles about electronics design for a high-tech company in the SF Bay Area.

Betsy Mason ('01) B.A., geology, Princeton University; M.S., geology, Stanford University; internships: The Dallas Morning News, California Wild, New Scientist (S.F. bureau), Nature; jobs: freelance writer for New Scientist, Discover, Nature, ScienceNOW, The Scientist, Stanford News Service; science writer for the Contra Costa Times, where she received the 2007 David Perlman Award from the American Geophysical Union for excellence in news reporting; science editor, WIRED; now 2015-16 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

Barbara Masters (’84) B.A., biology, UC Berkeley; M.A., biochemistry, University of Colorado; internship: FM radio station in Colorado (AAAS Mass Media Fellow); first job: policy writer (medicine, science and technology) for U.S. Senator Alan Cranston (D-CA). Now vice president of a consortium of hospitals in northern California.

Amy McDermott ('16) B.S., biology, UC Santa Cruz; M.A., conservation biology, Columbia University; internships: Science News, Grist (Seattle); first and current job: science writer, Oceana (Washington D.C.).
WEB SITE: http://www.amygmcdermott.com

Maggie McKee ('00) B.A., physics, Grinnell College; internships: Harvard Medical School and California Wild; jobs: fact checker at Health; associate editor at Astronomy; reporter and editor, NewScientistSpace.com; now freelancing from Boston.
WEB SITE: http://www.maggieqmckee.com

Cynthia McKelvey ('14) B.A., biology, Oberlin College; internship and first job: science writer, Multiple Sclerosis Discovery Forum; currently freelancing from Oakland.
WEB SITE: http://cynthiamckelvey.com

Aline McKenzie (’89) B.S., chemistry, MIT; M.A., neuroscience, UC San Francisco; internships: the Lompoc (CA) Record and Science News; jobs: (Vallejo, CA) Times-Herald; staff reporter, Dallas Morning News; The Science Place in Dallas; current job: senior writer in the news office at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Robin Meadows (’87) B.A., biology, Reed College; M.S., biology, UC San Diego; internship: UC Davis Aquaculture and Fisheries Program; job: freelancing from the SF Bay Area; credits include California Agriculture, Conservation, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, PLoS Biology, and Smithsonian ZooGoer; board member, Northern California Science Writers Association; blog: What's That Crop?, a field guide to California agriculture.
WEB SITE: http://nasw.org/users/rmeadows

Rosie Mestel (’91) B.A., genetics, Queen Mary College, University of London; Ph.D., genetics, UC Davis; internship: The Dallas Morning News; jobs: reporter, Discover; West coast correspondent, New Scientist; health and science reporter and editor, Los Angeles Times; currently chief magazine editor, Nature, London.

Catherine Meyers ('11) B.S., engineering, Harvey Mudd College; internship and first job: American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD.

Greg Miller (’01) B.S., zoology, Duke; Ph.D., neuroscience, Stanford University; internship: New Scientist, London; jobs: editor, ScienceNOW; staff writer and neuroscience reporter, Science; senior writer, WIRED; now freelancing from Portland, Oregon.

Katharine Miller (’01) B.A., archeology, Harvard University; J.D., Stanford University; internship: Sage KE (Science website on the science of aging); first job: freelancing; clients included the Exploratorium magazine, Lucile Packard Children's Foundation magazine, and the Zea Mays Data Base (ZMDB) project; current job: managing editor, Biomedical Computation Review at Stanford.

Mary K. Miller (’90) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internship: ZooGoer (National Zoo); first job: science writer for The Exploratorium in San Francisco; currently writer/producer for Live@Exploratorium, part-time freelancer, and SciCom lecturer (web media). Coauthor of Watching Weather (Henry Holt) and contributor to A Field Guide for Science Writers (NASW).

Cynthia Mills (’93) B.A., economics; M.A., zoology; D.V.M., all at UC Davis; internships: UC San Francisco Treatment Research Group; assistant editor for Pacific Discovery (later California Wild), San Francisco. Freelancing in the Pacific Northwest, with day job as an emergency room veterinarian. Her essay "Breeding Discontent," originally published in The Sciences, was collected in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001. Author of The Theory of Evolution: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Works (Wiley, 2004).

Daniela Minerva (’84) B.A., philosophy, University of Bologna (Fulbright Scholar); internship: Sapere (Italy’s largest popular science magazine, based in Rome); first job: managing editor, Sapere.

Christine Mlot ('84) B.S., bacteriology and French, University of Wisconsin, Madison; internship: Science News; jobs: Environment magazine; BioScience features editor; Science News life sciences writer; UW-Madison writing instructor; Nature Conservancy contributing editor; freelance writer/editor (Science/ScienceNOW, Natural History, National Wildlife, US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, World Resources Institute); currently freelance writer, editor, and writing coach.

Beth Marie Mole ('12) B.S., biology and ethnomusicology, College of William and Mary; Ph.D., microbiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; internships: The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Scientist, and Nature, through Sept. 2013.

Kendall Morgan ('02) B.A., biology, Earlham College; Ph.D., biology, University of Oregon; internships: Idaho National Laboratory and Science News; jobs: freelance writer for Stanford School of Medicine Strategic Plan, ScienceNOW and Cell Press; science writer for Duke University Medical Center news office; science writer/editor for Duke's Pratt School of Engineering; currently assistant director of communications, Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy.

Clara Moskowitz ('07) B.A., astronomy and physics, Wesleyan University; internships: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Discover; jobs: senior writer for Space.com and LiveScience.com, New York; assistant managing editor, Space.com; currently senior editor, physics and astronomy, Scientific American (New York).

Elisabeth Nadin ('03) B.S. geology & geological oceanography, University of Rhode Island; Ph.D., geology, Caltech; internships: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Monterey County Herald, EarthScope education & outreach; first jobs: science writer at Caltech's magazine Engineering & Science and senior science writer for Caltech Media Relations. Now assistant professor of geology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
WEB SITE: http://uaf.academia.edu/ElisabethNadin

Bryn Nelson (’99) B.A., biology, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.; Ph.D., microbiology, University of Washington; internship: health and science reporter for the Long Island-based daily Newsday; first job: staff writer, Newsday; currently freelancing from Seattle.

Jessa Netting ('00) B.S., zoology, UC Davis; M.S., entomology, University of Arizona; internships: Popular Science, NPR's Science Friday, Scientific American, and Nature; jobs: biology reporter, Science News; associate editor, Discover; science and online editor, McGraw-Hill/AccessScience; science writer, City College of New York; news editor, SFARI.org; currently managing editor, WebMD/Medscape, New York. 

Regina Nuzzo ('04) B.S., industrial engineering, University of South Florida; Ph.D., statistics, Stanford University; postdoc, music cognition, McGill University; internship: Idaho National Laboratory; first job: science writer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; now a professor of mathematics and statistics at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., and freelancing for Nature, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.

Larry O’Hanlon (’93) B.A., earth science, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Davis Enterprise; jobs: science & environment reporter for the Tahoe Daily Tribune; the Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Californian (Salinas, CA), and the Lahontan Valley News; correspondent and editor for Earth channel, Discovery.com; science writer, W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii. Now blogosphere manager and social media specialist for American Geophysical Union and science writer for Discovery News.

Anne Oplinger (’85) B.A., biology and English literature, Hamilton College; internships: Friends of the Earth, National Wildlife Federation; jobs: writer, National Institutes of General Medical Sciences; science writer, news office, University of Virginia, part-time while completing a Ph.D. in medical ethics. Now on the media relations team (infectious diseases and biodefense) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Becky Oskin (’00) B.S., geology, Washington State University; M.S., geology, Caltech; internships: Discovery Online News, Idaho National Laboratory; jobs: city-science-medical reporter, Pasadena Star-News; public relations specialist, Duke University Medical Center; health and science editor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; freelance journalist; science writer for OurAmazingPlanet.com. Now science writer, University of California, Davis.

Chris Palmer ('13) B.S., psychology and biology, Northern Arizona University; Ph.D., neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin; internships: The Scientist, National Cancer Institute; current job: communications editor, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, MD).
WEB SITE: http://chrispalmer.squarespace.com

Jane Palmer ('10) B.S., cognitive science, and Ph.D., computational molecular biology, University of Sheffield, U.K.; internship and first job: science news writer/communications coordinator, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder; current job: freelance science writer and podcast producer, Boulder.

Stephanie Pappas ('09) B.A., psychology, University of South Carolina; internship: Stanford Medical School; current job: senior reporter, LiveScience.com, from Denver.

Lynn Meyerson Parker (’82) B.A., computer science and American studies, UC Santa Cruz; internships: San Jose Mercury News, KUSP public radio; jobs: Ashland (OR) Daily Tidings; Register-Pajaronian (Watsonville, CA); Regis McKenna Public Relations, Palo Alto; since 1994, owner of integrated branding consulting firm with 10 employees in Seattle. Author of three books on branding and monthly columnist for the Puget Sound Business Journal. Speaker at TEDx Puget Sound, 2011.

Noreen Parks (’90) B.A., social studies education, and M.S., history, University of Illinois; B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; jobs: project coordinator/manuscript editor for the award-winning Atlas of Hawaii; public information officer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; communications coordinator, Marine Conservation Biology Institute; currently freelancing from Port Townsend, Washington.

Aria Pearson ('06) B.A., integrative biology, UC Berkeley; internships: Wired and New Scientist (San Francisco bureau); currently freelancing from the SF Bay Area for both publications.

Alissa Poh ('08) B.S., biochemistry, University of Bristol, U.K.; M.S., pharmacology, Dartmouth; internships: Children's Hospital Boston, assistant editor at Cambridge Healthtech Institute, publisher of PharmaWeek; jobs: science writer, Lung Genomics Research Consortium; currently science writer, University of Kansas Medical Center.
WEB SITE: http://alissapoh.net

Robert Pollie (’82) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internships: Science News and “Report on Science” (AAAS syndicated radio program); longtime job: freelance speechwriter for Silicon Valley executives; currently producing and reporting news and features on science for public radio; based in Santa Cruz.

Laura Poppick ('13) B.S., geology, Bates College; internship: Live Science (New York); current job: science educator, Portland Children's Museum, and contributing writer, Live Science.
WEB SITE: http://laurapoppick.com

Lisa Marie Potter ('15) B.A., Earth science and Spanish, and M.S., biology, San Francisco State University; internships: UC San Francisco news office, KQED Science; first job: contract writer, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and freelancing; current job: science writer, University of Utah news office.
WEB SITE: http://www.lisamariepotter.com

Hugh Powell ('05) B.A., biology, Huntingdon College; M.S., avian ecology, University of Montana, Missoula; internship and first job: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Spent time freelancing, including expanding the blogosphere at The Gist and his own site, surf.bird.scribble; camped out with penguins and wrote about the International Polar Year. Current job: science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Kendall Powell (’02) B.S., biology, College of William and Mary, M.S., biomedical sciences, UC San Diego; internship: Nature and its "Science Update" website; first and current job: freelance science journalist in Colorado covering biomedical and environmental science and research culture for Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, Los Angeles Times, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Public Library of Science, and Journal of Cell Biology.

Solana Pyne ('01) B.S., biology, and B.A., literature/creative writing, UC San Diego; internships: Newsday, Discover, The Village Voice; jobs: freelancing for The Village Voice, Science, and Newsday; environmental reporter for the Cambodia Daily, based in Phnom Penh; reporter for NY1 News television in New York; associate producer, NOVA; currently director of video and strategy for the foreign news website GlobalPost, based in New York City (after postings in Morocco and Rio de Janeiro).

Sarah Rabkin (’85) A.B., biology, Harvard University; internship: Science '84; jobs: writing lecturer, UC Santa Cruz; freelance writing and editing for Health, Hippocrates, San Jose Mercury News, and the Edell Health Letter; most recent job: lecturer in environmental studies, UC Santa Cruz, and writing coach (Juniper Editing); all along, freelance instructor for the Yosemite Association and outdoor education schools. Author of What I Learned at Bug Camp: Essays on Finding a Home in the World (Juniper Lake Press, 2011).
WEB SITE: http://sarahrabkin.com

Kate Ramsayer ('03) B.A. biology, Williams College; internships: Stanford University Medical Center, Science News; jobs: environment and business reporter, The Daily Astorian (Oregon); environment reporter, The Bend Bulletin; science writer, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.; currently science writer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

Sandeep Ravindran ('11) B.S., genetics and development, Cornell University; Ph.D., microbiology and immunology, Stanford University; internship: Science News; first job: science writer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.; now freelancing from New York.

Julie Rehmeyer ('06) B.S., mathematics, Wellesley College; M.S., mathematics, MIT; internships: New Scientist, California (UC Berkeley), and Science News. Freelance writer for Science News, Science, Technology Review, New Scientist, and others; math columnist for Science News and Wired. Published in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010. Author of Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand.

Czerne M. Reid ('04) B.Sc., chemistry, Univ. of the West Indies; M.Sc., Ph.D. environmental chemistry, Emory University; internship: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; jobs: Kaiser Media Fellow and reporter at The State (Columbia, SC); assistant news director, University of Florida Health Science Center; current job: lecturer and online course developer, University of Florida College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. Also co-chair, NASW Education Committee.

Camille Mojica Rey (’97) B.A., biology, University of Texas, Austin; Ph.D., integrative biology, UC Berkeley; internship: San Jose Mercury News; jobs: health and science writer, Monterey County Herald; health editor for Latina magazine, New York; staff writer, San Jose Mercury News; public information officer, UC San Francisco. Currently freelancing (print and online) and consulting on science-themed media relations from Saratoga, CA.

Aditi Risbud ('06) B.S., materials science and engineering, UC Davis; Ph.D., materials science, UC Santa Barbara; internship: Stanford Medical Center; jobs: science communications and PR executive, Weber Shandwick; communications manager, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; engineering writer, University of Utah; current job: science communications officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto.

Mary-Russell Roberson ('88) B.A., geology, Carleton College; internship and first job: ZooGoer magazine; other jobs: North Carolina Alternative Energy Corporation; freelancing, with part-time work at the Museum of Life and Science on curricula and museum programming. Coauthor of Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas: A Field Guide to Favorite Places from Chimney Rock to Charleston (UNC Press, 2007).

Barbra A. Rodriguez (’96) B.A., biology and education, University of Missouri-Columbia; M.S., cell and molecular biology, Washington University, St. Louis; internships: The Dallas Morning News, The Kansas City Star; jobs: medical writer, Washington University and communications director, Siteman Cancer Center; media relations, University of Texas at Austin, for natural sciences college (director), engineering school, and Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center; freelance writer (full-time since April 2016) in life sciences, engineering, and sustainability.
WEB SITE: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vitalwordplay 

Madolyn Bowman Rogers ('08) B.S., Spanish, University of Wisconsin, Madison; B.S., biology, University of South Florida; Ph.D., developmental biology, Stanford; internship: U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (Walnut Creek, CA); first and current job: science writer, Alzheimer Research Forum.

Nala Rogers ('15) B.A., biology, University of Utah; internships: Nature Medicine, Science; first job: science writer, The Wildlife Society; current job: science writer, Inside Science News Service (College Park, MD).
WEB SITE: http://nalarogers.com

Susan Young Rojahn ('11) B.S., molecular biology, University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., molecular biology, UC Berkeley; internships: Stanford Medical School news office, Nature; first job: biology reporter, Technology Review, Cambridge, MA; current job: science writer, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

Joseph Rojas-Burke (’90) B.A., biology, Columbia University; internship: Newsday (Long Island, NY); jobs: news editor, Journal of Nuclear Medicine; health and science reporter, Eugene Register-Guard; science writer, The Oregonian (Portland, OR); contributing writer, Consumer Reports publications; associate editor, Oregon Business Magazine; now a senior science writer at the University of Utah.
WEB SITE: joerojasburke.com

Emmanuel Romero ('09) B.S., biology, San Francisco State University; internships: California Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Children's Hospital Boston; Cleveland Plain Dealer (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting internship); QB3 (California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences), San Francisco; first job: health writer, Brafton news content marketing; now working as a senior lab technician and screenwriter.

Meghan D. Rosen ('12) B.S., biology, Northern Arizona University; Ph.D., biochemistry and molecular biology, University of California, Davis; internships: Science News, National Cancer Institute; current job: general assignment reporter, Science News.

Erin E.A. Ross ('16) B.A., biology, Clark University; internships: National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Public Radio, Nature; first and current job: science reporter, Axios (Washington D.C.).
WEB SITE: http://www.erineaross.com

Keith Rozendal ('11) B.S., psychology, Rice University; Ph.D., social psychology, UC Santa Barbara; internships: SETI Institute "Big Picture Science" radio program, Vancouver Sun; master's degree in documentary journalism, University of British Columbia; current job: broadcast adviser, KZSC-FM, Santa Cruz.

Susanne Rust (’03) B.S., anthropology, Barnard College; M.S., physical anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison; internship and first job: science reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Winner of several major national awards for "Chemical Fallout," an investigative series, including the 2008 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism from Columbia University. Next job: Environment reporter, Center for Investigative Reporting, Berkeley; now on the faculty at Columbia University's Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.

Hayley Rutger ('08) B.S., biology, Stetson University; internships: National Geographic Mission Programs and Zoogoer, U.S. National Zoo (Washington, D.C.); first and current job: public relations manager, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL.

Emily Saarman ('06) B.S., aquatic biology, Brown University; internships: Santa Cruz Sentinel, Discover; first and current job: science writer and policy coordinator, Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) in Santa Cruz.

Kristin (Cobb) Sainani ('02) B.A., biology and philosophy, Dartmouth; M.S., statistics, Stanford University; Ph.D., epidemiology, Stanford; internship: Science News; current job: clinical assistant professor at Stanford (writing, statistics); freelance writer: Biomedical Computation Review; monthly health columnist, Allure.

Rex Sanders ('15) B.S., systems ecology, UC Riverside; internship: U.S. National Park Service, Point Reyes National Seashore; current job: science communicator, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz.
WEB SITE: http://rexsanders.weebly.com

Megha Satyanarayana ('07) B.S., biology, Tufts University; Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; internship: health reporter, Charlotte Observer (North Carolina); health reporting fellowship through the Kaiser Family Foundation at the Biloxi Sun Herald (Mississippi); health reporter, Detroit Free Press; 2013-14 Knight-Wallace Fellow, University of Michigan; currently science and technology reporter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Mark Schrope (’99) B.S., biology, Wake Forest University; M.S., oceanography, Florida State University; internships: Popular Science, New Scientist; jobs: freelance writer for Nature, New Scientist, Discovery.com and others; science writer for the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Currently freelancing from Florida for Popular Science, Nature, Outside, New York Times, and others.
WEB SITE: http://www.markschrope.com

Karen F. Schmidt (’91) B.S., chemistry, San José State University; internships: U.S. News and World Report, Science News; first job: chemistry reporter, Science News. Taught environmental journalism as a Fulbright Scholar in Romania. Freelanced for U.S. News and World Report, New Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Science, Earth, National Wildlife. Current job: Middle school science teacher in San Jose, CA.

Desiree Scorcia ('02) B.S., physics, Boston College; internships: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, American Physical Society; jobs: the Boothbay Register, business, education, science, and waterfront beat; science editor for Kaplan Test Prep in New York; current job: high school physics teacher in Maine.

Kelly Servick ('13) B.A., cognitive science and comparative literature, University of Georgia; internship: Science; first job: biomedical reporter, Science (Washington, D.C.).
WEB SITE: http://kellyservick.com

Caroline Seydel (’00) B.S., genetic engineering, Cedar Crest College (Allentown, Pa.); M.S., genetics, Stanford University; internship: Popular Science; currently freelancing, based in Redondo Beach, CA. Clients: ScienceNOW, Popular Science, New Scientist, and Mercury.

Rina Shaikh-Lesko ('13) B.S., biology, UC Riverside; M.P.H., epidemiology and biostatistics, San Diego State University; internships: California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, The Scientist; temporary job: science writer, Joint Genome Institute (Walnut Creek, CA); currently freelancing from San Jose.
WEB SITE: http://rinashaikhlesko.com

Kayvon Sharghi ('09) B.S., biochemistry, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; certificate, editing, University of Washington; internships: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, East Lansing, MI (multimedia); National Science Foundation (videography); current job: video producer in Earth sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) and editor of NASA Visualization Explorer.

Molly Sharlach ('14) B.S., biology and Russian, Williams College; Ph.D., microbiology, UC Berkeley; internships: Princeton University research magazine, The Scientist; first job: science writer, Rita Allen Foundation, Princeton, NJ; current position: Writer, Princeton School of Engineering.
WEB SITE: http://mollysharlach.net

Chandra Shekhar ('06) B. Tech., electronics, REC Calicut, India; M.E., computer science, IISc, Bangalore; Ph.D. computer vision, University of Southern California; internship: The Scientist. Currently freelancing for The Scientist, Los Angeles Times, Cell Chemistry & Biology, and other publications from Princeton, N.J.
WEB SITE: http://www.ScienceAndProse.com

Helen H. Shen ('12) B.S., biology, Stanford University; Ph.D., neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco; internships: Boston Globe (Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting intern), Nature; current job: locum editor and reporter, Nature.

Sonja Shin (’94) B.S., science journalism, Northwestern University; interned at NASA Ames public affairs, on the Discovery Channel's The Next Step, and KRON-TV; jobs: produced and researched medical reports for NBC Network News; reported medical news on air for KPLR-TV (WB), St. Louis; general assignment reporter at KIRO-TV (CBS), Seattle; video producer and freelance technology reporter in S.F. Bay Area. Now reporting science and medical news for public television, St. Louis.
WEB SITE: http://sonjashin.com

Ben Shouse ('01) B.A., biology, Brown University; M.S., ecology, UC Davis; internships: European news office of Science, and The Nation; freelancer for Science, The Scientist, and Santa Cruz Sentinel; jobs: environmental reporter, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, South Dakota; natural resources and environment editor/analyst for the U.S. Government Accountability Office; currently in writing and outreach for ocean science, Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, D.C.

Jessica Shugart ('13) B.S., molecular and cell biology, UC San Diego; Ph.D., immunology, UC Berkeley; internship: Science News (Washington, D.C.); first job: science writer, Alzheimer Research Forum, from Chico, CA.
WEB SITE: http://www.jessicashugart.com

Emily Singer ('03) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; M.A., neuroscience, UC San Diego; internships: Los Angeles Times, New Scientist; jobs: freelancing for Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, and Nature; senior editor, biomedicine, Technology Review; news editor, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative; currently life sciences editor, Quanta Magazine, Simons Foundation, New York.

Ramin Skibba ('16) B.S., physics, B.A., philosophy, University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., physics & astronomy, University of Pittsburgh; internship: Nature; currently freelancing from San Diego (New Scientist, Hakai, Nature).
WEB SITE: http://raminskibba.net

Douglas Smith (’82) B.S., chemistry, Waynesburg College; first job: writer and editor for a small chemical engineering firm in North Hollywood, CA; second job: writer, Engineering & Science, Caltech's research magazine. Currently editor of Engineering & Science. Recipient of Caltech Honorary Alumni Award, June 2012.

Kim Smuga-Otto ('15) B.A., bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison; internship: Stanford University School of Medicine; currently freelancing from Santa Cruz.
WEB SITE: http://kim.smuga-otto.com

Emily Sohn (’00) B.A., environmental and evolutionary biology, Dartmouth College; internships: The Dallas Morning News, U.S. News and World Report; jobs: Classroom Connect Quest Channel, an interactive, educational webcast adventure; freelancing, based in Minneapolis, writing books for kids and articles for The Los Angeles Times, Science News, Health, Smithsonian, Outside, New Scientist, Backpacker, Science News for Kids, and others. Contributing writer, covering environment, adventure, history and more for Discovery News.
WEB SITE: http://www.tidepoolsinc.com

Rosanne Spector (’90) B.S., government, Oberlin College; M.S., plant pathology, UC Berkeley; internship: Time (AAAS Mass Media Fellow); jobs: reporter, Peninsula Times Tribune (Palo Alto, CA); reporter, Valley Times (Pleasanton, CA); currently editor of Stanford Medicine Magazine and freelance writer for Muse.

Aparna Sreenivasan (’01) B.S., microbiology and molecular genetics, UCLA; Ph.D., molecular cellular and developmental biology, UC Santa Cruz; postdoctoral fellow, microbiology and immunology, UC San Francisco; first job: scientific analyst at a San Francisco law firm; current job: associate professor of science and environmental policy, California State University, Monterey Bay.

Nicholas St. Fleur ('14) B.S., biology (minor: communication), Cornell University; internships: NPR, Scientific American; first job: science writer, The Atlantic; current job: science reporter, The New York Times.
WEB SITE: http://www.nicholasstfleur.com

Robert Stayton ('86) B.A. physics, University of Colorado; M.S. physics, UC Santa Cruz; formerly taught physics, energy, and solar energy at Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz. Currently a consultant in computer-based publishing for businesses. Author of Power Shift: From Fossil Energy to Dynamic Solar Power (2015), a book on solar energy written for the general public, winner of a Gold Medal in the Global Ebook Awards program.

Brittany Steff ('07) B.S., ecology, evolutionary and population biology, Purdue University; internship: Discover magazine's online site; jobs: science writer for SeaWeb/COMPASS, an ocean-science and marine conservation consortium; web editor for FONZ/Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.; currently freelance writer and zoo/aquarium consultant from Indiana.

Tim Stephens (’90) B.A., botany, UC Santa Barbara; M.S., plant pathology, Cornell University; internship and first job: Journal of NIH Research, Washington, D.C.; writer and editor of medical publications at Miller Freeman, Inc., San Francisco; currently science writer in the UC Santa Cruz news office.

Erik Stokstad (’96) B.A., geology, Carleton College; M.S., geology, UC Riverside; internships: New Scientist, London, and Science; first job, editor, ScienceNOW; current job: managing editor, ScienceNOW, and staff writer, Science.

Richard Stone (’91) B.S., biology, Cornell University; internships: Washington Post, Science; jobs: Washington-based reporter and then Asia News Editor, Science, based in Beijing, China; International News Editor, Science, based in Washington, D.C. Author of Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant (Perseus, 2001). Winner of the 2003 American Institute of Biological Sciences award for an article in Science on a fatal disease spreading in Siberia. Currently: Senior Science Editor, Tangled Bank Studios, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Daniel Strain ('10) B.S., ecology and evolutionary biology, UC Santa Cruz; internships: U.S. National Park Service, Point Reyes (multimedia), Science News, Science; first job: science and environment writer, Maryland Sea Grant / Chesapeake Quarterly; currently freelancing from Denver.

Evelyn Strauss (’98) B.S., chemistry, UC Berkeley; Ph.D., biochemistry, UC San Francisco; postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University; internship: Science News; jobs: freelance writer, Scientific American, Health, WebMD, Stanford Medicine, Salon.com; contributing correspondent, Science; senior news editor, Science of Aging Knowledge Environment; executive director, Scientists Without Borders. Now executive editor of the MS Discovery Forum, a website for multiple sclerosis researchers; SciCom lecturer (profile/essay writing).

Nicole Stricker (’03) B.A., biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ph.D., neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; AAAS Mass Media Fellowship: Dallas Morning News; internship: Idaho National Laboratory; jobs: education reporter, then science and medicine reporter, Idaho Falls Post Register; education reporter, Salt Lake City Tribune; currently science writer, Idaho National Laboratory.

Lisa Strong (’93) B.A. environmental biology/environmental studies, UC Santa Barbara; internship: ZooGoer; first job: freelance writer/ photographer; current job: writer/producer, Strong Mountain Productions, producing nature, science and history videos for museum exhibits, multimedia and the Web; media lab coordinator for SciCom.
WEB SITE: http://www.strongmountain.com

Thomas Sumner ('13) B.S., physics, UC Santa Cruz; internships: American Geophysical Union, Science (Washington, D.C.); current job: Earth sciences reporter, Science News (Washington, D.C.).
WEB SITE: http://sumnerscience.com

Leslie Sweeney (’84) B.A., geology, Mount Holyoke College; internship: UC Santa Cruz campus publications; freelancing ever since, mixed with part-time writing, editing and web jobs at UCSC and elsewhere.

Alison Takemura ('16) B.S., biochemistry and cell biology, Rice University; Ph.D., microbiology, MIT; internship: The Scientist; first and current job: communication lab coordinator, MIT, and freelancing.
WEB SITE: http://www.alisonftakemura.info

Laura Tangley (’83) B.A., politics, University of Virginia; internship: Science News; editor, Science Notes; jobs: features editor, BioScience; MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow; wrote two books on tropical forests (for Chelsea House and Beacon Press); associate editor, Earthwatch magazine, Boston; senior writer, Conservation International; senior editor, U.S. News and World Report. Currently senior editor, National Wildlife.

Rachel Tompa ('08) B.A. biology, University of Chicago; Ph.D., molecular biology, UC San Francisco; internship: UC Berkeley news office; jobs: engineering writer, University of Washington; senior science writer, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
WEB SITE: http://www.racheltompa.com

Michael Torrice ('09) S.B., chemistry, MIT; Ph.D., chemistry, Caltech; internship: Science; current job: deputy assistant managing editor, Chemical & Engineering News, from Pasadena.

Stephen Tung ('12) B.S., mechanical engineering, Cornell University; internships: Joint Genome Institute (Walnut Creek, CA), San Francisco Exploratorium; current job: multimedia exhibit designer, San Francisco Exploratorium.

James Urton ('15) B.A., biology, Augustana College; Ph.D., molecular and cellular biology, University of Washington; first and current job: science writer, University of Washington news office, Seattle.
WEB SITE: http://www.jamesurton.com

Erik Vance ('06) B.S., biology, Principia College; internships: California magazine (UC Berkeley), The Chronicle of Higher Education; currently freelancing from Mexico City. Clients include Nature, The New York Times, National Geographic, Harper's, and Discover. Winner of the 2015 NASW Science and Society Award for science reporting for this article in Discover.
WEB SITE: http://erikvance.com

Christopher Vaughan (’87) B.A., biophysics, UC Berkeley; internships: BioScience, National Institute of Mental Health, Science News; jobs: general sciences editor, Science News; West coast correspondent, New Scientist; editor, Cambridge University Press, based at Stanford; currently communications officer, Stanford Institutes of Medicine. Coauthored books: The Promise of Sleep (Delacorte Press, 1999); The Gift of Health: How the Environment in the Womb Can Affect Lifelong Health (Harper/Collins, 2001); Play (Avery, 2009).

Danielle Venton ('11) B.S., biology, Humboldt State University; internships: Wired.com, Wired, High Country News; first job: reporter/producer, KRCB radio, Rohnert Park, CA, and freelancing.
WEB SITE: http://www.danielleventon.com

María José Viñas ('08) Licenciatura, veterinary medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona; Licenciatura, journalism, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain; internships: Sea Studios, Monterey, CA, and The Chronicle of Higher Education; first job: public information coordinator, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.; current job: earth sciences writer and outreach coordinator, cryospheric sciences branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
WEB SITE: http://www.mjvinas.com

Gretchen Vogel (’96) B.S., biochemistry, Iowa State University; internship: Science (Washington, D.C.); first job: staff writer at Science; currently European correspondent for Science, based in Berlin.

Andreas von Bubnoff ('05) M.S. and Ph.D., developmental biology, University of Freiburg, Germany; internships: Chicago Tribune (AAAS Mass Media Fellow) and Nature. Jobs: senior science writer, IAVI Report, New York, and freelancing. Now freelancing from Brooklyn, NY. His story "Numbers Can Lie" appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. Freelance work: Los Angeles Times, Prevention, Science News, Nature, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2016 Grimme Online Award, Germany, for this multimedia project.
WEB SITE: http://andreasvonbubnoff.com

Patricia Waldron ('14) B.S., biology, Grinnell College; M.S.., microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; internship: Inside Science News Service; first and current job: science writer, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University.
WEB SITE: http://patriciawaldron.com

Cameron Walker (’02) B.S., bioresource sciences, UC Berkeley; internships: Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program, California Wild; current job: freelancing for The Last Word on Nothing, High Country News, and Sunset.
WEB SITE: http://www.cameronwalker.net

Michael Wall ('09) B.S., ecology and evolutionary biology, and B.A., history, University of Arizona; Ph.D., evolutionary biology, University of Sydney; internship: Idaho National Laboratory; current job: senior reporter, Space.com, from San Francisco.

Bonnie Wallace (’95) B.S., literature, Caltech; first job: senior exhibit writer/editor, California Science Center, Los Angeles. Exhibits written: Creative World (1998), Magic: The Science of Illusion (2000), and Air and Space Gallery (2002). Currently a freelance exhibit writer in St. Louis.

Nik Walter (’94) Dipl. (M.S.), zoology, Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland; internship: Exploratorium, San Francisco; freelance science writer for German and Swiss newspapers and magazines; first job: science writer, SonntagsZeitung (Zurich, Switzerland); current job, science and technology editor, SonntagsZeitung.

Tracy Washburn (’97) B.A., biology, Indiana University at South Bend; Ph.D., biology, University of Notre Dame; postdoctoral fellowships, The Salk Institute and UC Berkeley; internship: Archipelago Productions (educational multimedia); jobs: content director for biology distance learning courses at Archipelago Productions; content director for Sumanas, Inc., a similar company in Pasadena.

Karen Watson (’84) B.A., biology, UC San Diego; M.A.T., Johns Hopkins University; internship and first job: Alameda Times-Star; other jobs: science writer, UC Davis; director of news and research communications, UC Davis; executive science producer/editor, Discovery Channel Online; interactive executive producer, Discovery.com; new media project development officer, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; now an inner-city high school science teacher in Baltimore.

Traci Watson (’92) B.A., biology and English, Amherst College; internships: Nature, Science; jobs: science writer, U.S. News & World Report; NASA and environmental reporter, USA Today; currently freelancing from London.

Janelle Weaver ('10) B.A., psychology and neuroscience, Dartmouth College; Ph.D., psychology and neuroscience, Stanford University; internship: National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Bethesda; now freelancing from Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
WEB SITE: http://www.janelleweaver.com/

Nicholas Weiler ('15) B.A., neurobiology and behavior, Columbia University; Ph.D., neurosciences, Stanford University; internship and first job: UC San Francisco news office.
WEB SITE: http://www.nicholasweiler.com

Peter Weiss (’90) B.S., electrical engineering, San José State University; internship: Science News; jobs: Valley Times (Pleasanton, CA); physics and technology writer, Science News; currently public information manager, American Geophysical Union (Washington, DC). Winner of American Astronomical Society prize for Popular Writing on Solar Physics (2000).

Jennifer Welsh ('10) B.S., biological sciences, University of Notre Dame; internships: The Scientist, DiscoverMagazine.com, LiveScience.com (New York); first job: science reporter, LiveScience.com; current job: senior editor, science, Business Insider.
FACEBOOK FAN PAGE: http://facebook.com/jennifercwelsh 

Lindzi Wessel ('16) B.S., psychology, and M.S., neuroscience, UC Davis; internships: STAT/Boston Globe, Science; first and current job: researcher/reporter, Annual Reviews Magazine (to be launched October 2017), Palo Alto, CA.
WEB SITE: http://lindziwessel.com

Amy E. West ('12) B.S., marine biology, University of the Virgin Islands; M.S., marine science, University of Otago, New Zealand; internships: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (video production), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; jobs: contract writer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch; freelance writer and videographer; current job: multimedia producer, U.S. Geological Survey (Santa Cruz).

Megan Mansell Williams ('04) B.S., marine biology, UC Santa Cruz; internships: ScienceNOW, California Wild, and Discover; freelance writer in New York and San Francisco; first job: assistant editor for Forefront, UC Berkeley College of Engineering; current job: head of communications, swissnex San Francisco.

Sarah Williams ('07) B.A., biology, Johns Hopkins University; internships: Yale University School of Medicine; Science News; first job: assistant editor, HHMI Bulletin, quarterly magazine of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; currently freelancing from San Antonio, Texas.

Shawna Williams ('03) B.A., biochemistry, Colorado College; internships: CERN, Stanford University Medical Center; jobs: public affairs officer, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University; science writer/managing editor, Genetics and Public Policy Center, Johns Hopkins University; instructor and editor, West China School of Medicine; science writer, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate University. Now communications manager, Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Leslie Willoughby ('15) B.S. and M.S., natural resources, The Ohio State University; internships: Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and U.S. National Park Service, Point Reyes National Seashore; currently science writer for the Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Science, Stanford University, and freelancing from Boulder Creek, CA.
WEB SITE: http://www.willoughbywriter.com

Elizabeth Wilson (’92) B.S., physics, and B.A., chemistry, UC Santa Barbara; internship: Alameda news group; jobs: science writer, Pasadena Star-News; associate editor and now senior editor, West Coast, Chemical & Engineering News.

Debra Wirkman (’91) B.A., chemistry, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Sea Studios, video production company in Monterey, CA; first job: science writer at Sea Studios; second job: content director of general chemistry distance learning course for Archipelago Productions/Harcourt e-Learning, also in Monterey.

Alexandra Witze (’93) B.S., geology, MIT; internship: The Dallas Morning News; jobs: freelance writer; associate editor at Earth (now defunct); science writer for The Dallas Morning News; chief of U.S. correspondents at Nature (Washington, D.C.); now contributing editor, Science News, based in Boulder, Colorado. Co-winner of the National Association of Science Writers' 2004 Science-in-Society award; winner of the 2000 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Writing-Features from the American Geophysical Union.

Kathleen Wong (’99) B.A., biology and English/American literature, UC Santa Cruz; internship: U.S. News and World Report; jobs: science reporter, Monterey County Herald; senior editor, California Wild (California Academy of Sciences); freelancing from the SF Bay Area; currently science writer for the University of California Natural Reserves System, Oakland. Coauthor of Natural History of San Francisco Bay, nominated for a 2012 Northern California Book Award in general nonfiction.
WEB SITE: http://www.nasw.org/users/Katwong/

Marcus Woo (’07) B.A., physics, Cornell University; M.S., astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park; AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, WOSU-AM, Columbus, Ohio; internship and first job: writer for Engineering & Science, Caltech's quarterly research magazine; next jobs: science writer, Caltech news office; science reporter, WIRED; currently freelancing from San Jose.

Heather Rock Woods (’94) B.A., biology, UC Berkeley; internship: The Oakland Tribune; jobs: reporter for an Oakland Tribune sister paper; reporter at The Palo Alto Weekly; science writer at Stanford Medical Center News Bureau; science writer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; currently freelancing in the SF Bay Area.

Mike Wooldridge (’92) B.A., genetics, UC Berkeley; internship: Discover; first job: science writer, Lawrence Berkeley Lab; current day job: Web developer at a domain name registration company; current night job: computer book author (has written twelve books on Web and imaging software). In the mid-90s, served as editor of the Black Rock Gazette, the daily newspaper of Burning Man.

Christopher Woolston (’95) B.S., fisheries and wildlife, Montana State University; M.S., biology, Montana State University; internship: Billings Gazette; jobs: Washington University School of Medicine; Hippocrates; currently contributing editor for Consumer Health Interactive and freelance writer for Prevention, Via, babycenter.com, health.com, and others. Columnist: The Healthy Skeptic for The Los Angeles Times. Coauthor of Generation Extra Large: Rescuing Our Children From the Epidemic of Obesity (Basic Books, 2005).

Shawne Workman (’04) B.S., human biology, Stanford University; M.S., neurobiology and behavior, UC Irvine; internship: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC); jobs: marketing publications manager for a scientific equipment company; currently editor of SLAC Today (daily online news at SLAC); currently freelance science and technical writer.

Matthew Wright ('05) B.S., biology, University of New Mexico; M.S., integrative biology, Arizona State University; internship: Stanford Medical Center; first job: science writer, Carnegie Institution of Washington; science outreach specialist, COMPASS/SeaWeb; communications manager, U.S. office, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program; currently science writer, University of Maryland.

Corinna Wu (’95) B.A., chemistry, Swarthmore College; M.S., materials science and engineering, Stanford University; internship: Science News; jobs: reporter/researcher, U.S. News and World Report; chemistry and materials science writer, Science News; producer for AAAS radio program Science Update; Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT; freelance writer/radio producer and contributing editor, Prism magazine; now associate editor, Chemical & Engineering News, based in Oakland.

George Wuerthner (’85) B.A., environmental studies, Montana State University; M.S., range management, University of Montana; freelance writer on wilderness areas, photographer, natural history guide, field ecology instructor, photo workshop instructor and biological consultant in Eugene, Oregon. Author of nearly 40 published books (latest: Protecting the Wild) plus hundreds of articles. Co-editor of Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth (Watershed Media, 2013), winner of a Gold Medal from Independent Publisher.

Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib ('10) B.S., neurobiology and physiology, B.A., music performance, and M.A., kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park; internships: Science News, Nature; first job: science writer, Alzheimer Research Forum.

Krista Zala ('06) B.Sc., biology, University of Victoria, Canada; internships: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and European news office of Science (Cambridge, U.K.); jobs: freelance for Nature, The Economist, and others; science writer and editor for the Pacific Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria; currently science writer at Ocean Networks Canada for the VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada cabled undersea observatories. Ongoing: freelancing for The Economist and the Santa Fe Institute.
WEB SITE: http://zalamode.com

Catherine Zandonella (’00) B.S., pharmacology, UC Santa Barbara; M.P.H., environmental health, UC Berkeley; internships: New Scientist (San Francisco bureau); Newsday; jobs: UC Berkeley news office; contributing correspondent, New Scientist; freelance for New Scientist and Nature; now science writer for Princeton University's Office of the Dean for Research. Science editor of National Geographic's The Green Guide and author of The Green Guide for Families (2010).
WEB SITE: http://www.catzan.org 

Sascha Zubryd ('11) B.S., psychology, UC Davis; internships: Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, San Francisco Exploratorium; currently new mom at home.