Tyler Santora is the health and science editor at Fatherly and a freelance science journalist based in Aurora, Colorado. Tyler has written for publications such as Scientific American, Popular Science, Nature Medicine, and many more. They enjoy writing about animals, weird science, and LGBTQ+ health, particularly transgender health.
Paul Tullis has written for more than 50 print, digital, and broadcast outlets, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, National Geographic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Nature, Wired, and NPR’s Morning Edition. He has reported from 15 countries on four continents about science, technology, the environment, and their intersections, and has also covered criminal justice, mental health, and more.
Verah Okeyo is a science journalist, teacher, and communications specialist in Nairobi, Kenya. As a midwife’s daughter who was born and bred in rural areas, Verah’s reporting focuses on global health—specifically maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and underrepresented communities. Verah worked as a reporter and editor at Nation Media, East and Central Africa’s most prominent media house. She is published in many outlets, including The Guardian and Foresight Global Health.
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega is a science journalist and audio producer based in Mexico City. He has a healthy obsession with Latin America, and that’s the region he’s focused most of his reporting on. He has written for Nature, Science, Scientific American, The Associated Press, and other outlets. His audio stories have appeared on podcasts such as El Hilo and Las Raras, where he works as a story coordinator, handling a wide range of editorial tasks.
Pakinam Amer is an award-winning journalist, science writer, podcaster, experimental storyteller, and a former Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was the senior writer of In Event of Moon Disaster—an Emmy-winning interactive documentary centered around deepfake technology, misinformation, and disinformation. Her stories and podcasts have appeared in Nature, Scientific American, and The Boston Globe, among other outlets.
Sarah Lewin Frasier is the assistant news editor at Scientific American; she plans, assigns, and edits the Advances section of the monthly magazine, as well as editing online news. Before joining Scientific American in 2019, she chronicled humanity’s journey to the stars as associate editor at Space.com. She holds an A.B. in mathematics from Brown University and an M.A. in journalism from New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. She enjoys musical theater and mathematical papercraft.
Paola Rosa-Aquino is a Brooklyn-based freelance reporter covering climate change, science, and energy.
Eric Boodman is a reporter for STAT, where he’s written about entomologists who specialize in fictional infestations, Haitian-American hospital workers lost to COVID-19, and many other subjects. His pieces have also appeared in TheAtlantic.com, Undark, and The Boston Globe Magazine.
Arielle Duhaime-Ross is a podcast host and TV correspondent at VICE News. She hosts the investigative news podcast VICE News Reports, and reports on science, health, technology, and climate change for VICE. Before joining VICE, she was a podcast host at Vox.com, where she covered technology. Her writing has appeared in The Verge, Quartz, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and Nature Medicine.
Maya Wei-Haas is a writer for National Geographic, where she writes about all things science, with a particular affection for rocks and reactions. Before that she was an assistant science editor for Smithsonianmag.com’s Smart News, which turns a Smithsonian lens on daily events. She began her career as a scientist, earning a PhD in environmental chemistry at Ohio State University, and made the jump to writing with the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship.
Sabrina Imbler is a freelance science writer and essayist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Atlas Obscura, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Gay Magazine, and others. Her chapbook about volcanoes, Dyke (geology), is out with Black Lawrence Press, and her essay collection about sea creatures is forthcoming with Little, Brown in 2022.
Sara Shipley Hiles is an associate professor of professional practice at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Before teaching, she was a freelance journalist and staff writer at publications including The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She specializes in science, health, and environmental journalism and serves on the board of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Jane J. Lee is a science writer and editor based in Los Angeles, California. She spent three and a half years at Nature as a news editor and, before that, three years as a reporter and editor at National Geographic. Her work has also appeared in Science, Wired.com, The San Jose Mercury News, and other publications. Jane is an alumna of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz and has a master’s in marine biology from UCLA.
Helen Ouyang is an emergency physician, a writer, and an assistant professor at Columbia University. She has written for The Atlantic, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times, New York, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and others. She was a 2018 National Magazine Award finalist.
Joshua Sokol is a science writer in the Boston area. He studied astronomy and English literature in college, worked as a data analyst for the Hubble Space Telescope, and then attended MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. Since 2016 he has been a freelancer covering space and other topics in natural history for publications like Quanta, Science, The New York Times, and whoever else will look at his pitches.
Eli Chen reports on scientific research and environmental issues at St. Louis Public Radio. Her work has appeared in or aired on NPR, Marketplace, WHYY’s The Pulse, The New York Times, Science Friday, and Scientific American. Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, her role model growing up was Sue the T. rex at the Field Museum, because everyone should aspire to become an apex predator.
Mark Peplow is a freelance science journalist based near Cambridge, U.K., who splits his time between writing and editing. He previously spent four years as Nature’s news editor, two years as editor of Chemistry World, and two years as a physical sciences reporter at Nature. He really likes chemistry.
Virginia Hughes is the science editor at BuzzFeed News, where she manages five reporters focused on the darker side of science. Before that she was a freelancer reporting on genetics, neuroscience, and medicine. Her writing has appeared in Nature, Popular Science, The New York Times, and twice in the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. She grew up in Michigan and now lives with her husband, daughter, and energetic dog in Brooklyn, New York.
Amy Maxmen is a senior reporter at Nature, based in San Francisco. She has written about Ebola, evolution, machine learning, and much more.
Ashley Smart is the associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT and a senior editor at Undark magazine. He joined KSJ in 2018, after eight years as an editor at Physics Today. He is a member of the advisory board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and a co-chair of the National Association of Science Writers diversity committee. Ashley was a 2015–16 Knight Science Journalism fellow.
Megha Satyanarayana worked at several newspapers and an online news startup before landing at Chemical & Engineering News. She has covered suburban crime, public health, science and technology, and much more. She also knows a bit about audience engagement and multimedia reporting, and is happy to have landed back in Texas, where sentences start, end, and contain in all grammatical spaces the word y’all, and it works. Really.
Shannon Palus is a journalist based in Brooklyn. She is a senior staff writer at Wirecutter, where she primarily covers health tech and personal care. Her freelance work has appeared in Scientific American, Slate, Popular Science, New Scientist, The Atlantic, Discover, and elsewhere.
Anna Kuchment is a staff science writer at The Dallas Morning News, a contributing editor at Scientific American, and a former reporter and writer at Newsweek magazine. She is a coauthor, with Boston College historian Conevery Bolton Valencius, of the forthcoming book Shaky Ground: The Untold Story of the Largest Earthquake Surge in Modern History, which tells the story of the dramatic rise in earthquakes linked to oil and gas production.
Kat McGowan is a journalist and editor focused on medicine and science. As an editor, she currently works with Grist and Neo Life; her most recent bylines were for Popular Science, Mother Jones, Scientific American, and STAT. She was formerly a consulting editor at the autism science publication Spectrum, a special projects editor at Discover, and senior editor at Psychology Today. She also volunteers at a wildlife hospital and is an active member of the crow team.
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