Science Writer, Journalist, and Audio Producer

An update for June 2025

Photo by Miles Price

While writing about climate change and climate action for Terra.do has been my main job for the last two years, at 32 hours a week, it’s afforded me some bandwidth for other endeavors worth highlighting:

  1. I am currently working on mixing several episodes of the forthcoming podcast American Shrapnel, hosted by journalist and author Becca Andrews and two-time Pulitzer winner John Archibald.

  2. I just finished my work fact-checking The Country In Our Hearts, a podcast series from Nashville Public Radio on how the city became home to this hemisphere’s largest Kurdish diaspora.

  3. Since winter, I’ve also occasionally helped out my friends at the radio station by writing and editing news spots and filling in as local afternoon host during All Things Considered. This work is close to my heart as it’s the same place I started as an intern and cub reporter many years ago.

  4. One day in spring, amid flash flooding and a string of tornado warnings, I reported some news for The New York Times and got a couple of small bylines. Cross that off my bucket list.

  5. Before that, in fall of 2024, I took a class on Climate-Informed Decision-Making and Risk Management from the team at Probable Futures in partnership with Terra.do, and learned a lot about reckoning with potential climate impacts.

Lastly, while it’s much more her accomplishment than mine, this spring my mom took Terra.do’s 12-week Learning for Action course to learn and do more about the climate crisis. She found it so worthwhile that she’s now working on adding solar panels to her house in Alabama and stepping up her involvement in the community. I’m proud of her and proud to have worked at a place that could inspire her to that level.

Four exciting things I did in 2023:

Updated January 2024

  1. I accepted a staff role as lead climate writer at Terra.do, the online climate school that helps people learn and do more about the climate crisis. (I first began freelancing there in 2021.)

  2. I also started freelancing for the Natural History Museum of Utah. (See those samples here.)

  3. I presented a story live onstage at KQED as part of the launch of my friend and former editor Olivia Allen-Price’s book Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area. Along with a new piece I wrote for the book, it includes several stories on science and natural history I originally told on the podcast.

  4. After four years and more than 60 episodes, I retired from my role as the technical producer for California Now, the tourism podcast of Visit California. (More on that work is here.)

Stuff I’ve done in the past:

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I’ve written stories for the Monterey Bay Aquarium on subjects from sea otter research to ocean acidification. I’ve also worked for numerous tech companies—for instance, I was a freelance writer for Grammarly from 2016 to 2022. And I’ve been a fact-checker for Outside magazine and appeared on such shows as Science Friday and PBS NewsHour.

I have more than a decade of experience in public radio, including:

  • Covering wildfires, drought, and self-driving cars for The California Report and KQED Science in San Francisco.

  • Telling detailed stories about dinosaurs, the ice age, and California trees on KQED’s Bay Curious podcast.

  • Reporting and voicing spot news stories about NASA’s New Horizons space probe for NPR’s national newscast unit.

I spent the first six years of my career at Nashville Public Radio, where I was a reporter and substitute host. I still work for them occasionally, like when I fact-checked this investigation in 2020.

I hold degrees in journalism and Spanish from Middle Tennessee State University and am based in Nashville, Tennessee.