I’m an award-winning science writer and journalist. I specialize in explaining complex ideas in simple ways. My work has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, RadioLab, TED-Ed, Minute Physics and CBS.
Previously, I worked at The New York Times’s Upshot desk, where I reported on artificial intelligence, climate change, extreme weather and science funding cuts. My colleagues and I won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Coverage. I won publisher’s awards for explaining how A.I. works and for exposing DOGE’s accounting errors and math mistakes.
I’m well-rounded in all aspects of visual journalism from writing, reporting and analyzing data to coding interactive graphics and data visualizations. I also helped build the software The New York Times uses to publish graphics and interactive articles. Here are some examples of my work.
Before becoming a journalist, I taught at Princeton University. In my courses, students learned how to create art with engineering, and learned about the math and science underlying music. I was an Associate Director of Engineering Education at Princeton’s Center on Science and Technology and was part of the team that created the StudioLab.
I have a Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. At Rutgers, I taught physics to over 500 students, and was awarded the Richard J. Plano Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Teaching physics remains my first love.
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” — Mary Oliver