Based in Vancouver, Canada, I crossed a career bridge from scientist to journalist after a PhD and postdoctoral research in wildlife ecology. My in-depth science background gives me a high level of trust within a rich international network of scientists. My work appears in the New York Times, BioScience, BBC Future, New Scientist, Science, Nature, BBC Future, New Scientist, Discover, Scientific American, Natural History, Aeon, National Geographic and many others. I was the creator of Stay-at-Home Animal Dads, produced by Rotating Planet Productions and broadcast in June 2019 on CBC’s The Nature of Things. I worked on the production as lead writer and assistant director. I also worked as a writer and story editor on the CBC The Nature of Things documentary Aging in the Wild, and a related 5-part series for ARTE. I was also the creator of Animal Social Networks, a 5-part series produced for ARTE (Europe), and worked on the production by Rotating Planet as writer and story editor. A 2019 World Conference of Science Journalists travel fellowship took me to the top of the Swiss Alps to an atmospheric chemistry lab and deep under the French Alps where physicists smash particles together in the Large Hadron Collider. However, my passion for scientific storytelling is most often inspired by time in nature. I am an alumna of investigative journalism and science communications intensives at Alberta’s Banff Centre, was a journalist fellow at the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin, and held a medical reporting fellowship for a Knight Science bootcamp at MIT. A curiosity-driven storyteller, I am continuously learning and honing my professional craft.
Postdoctoral fellowship -- University of British Columbia PhD - Simon Fraser University MSc - York University (Toronto) BSc(Hons) - University of Toronto
Features, news, documentaries, narrative non-fiction, longform. Beats: Science, environment, ecology, animal behaviour, human rights, science policy, environmental policy, gender and diversity issues in science, climate change, green energy, environmental health, green chemistry, archaeology, paleontology, psychology, neurobiology, medicine, COVID-19, toxicology, indigenous-led conservation, wildlife conservation, scientist profiles.
