Audiences deserve vivid, understandable, accurate science news and insight. They deserve to have science placed in meaningful and relevant context. They deserve journalism that honors their intelligence and their need for trustworthy information—reporting that holds to account the powerful institutions, including science, who should be serving them. 

As an editor, I do my best to understand the needs of diverse readers and serve them. As a program director, my goal is to help journalists and communicators do the best job possible as they interpret science for the public, with a particular eye to training and encouraging those who will carry the work forward.

Over the past four decades, I've been privileged to work with amazing scientists and great science storytellers who make science accessible and accountable. I've learned from authors, art directors, writers, and editors. I've also had chances to listen to young readers and to many in the US and elsewhere who don't feel connected to or served by science. Finally, through my work with Tech Science, I have worked with investigators who interrogate the algorithms and platforms that enable and invisibly control human society today, with a goal of making their findings widely accessible and useful.

It is an honor to support and participate in these important endeavors. Most of my independent work is substantive editing, drawing on decades of immersion in the world of research. Such edits often involve digging into the underlying research and making significant revisions to ensure that a science story is told in the most rigorous, accurate, and compelling way. If you'd be interested in collaborating, want to engage with CASW, or just need some advice from a seasoned editor or program director, please get in touch.

"Great Science Stories Don't Dumb Things Down": A Q&A

Education

Duke University

M.A., public policy sciences

Syracuse University

A.B., journalism and political science