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GPSW 2013

Abdul-Kareem Ahmed

Health, medicine

After attending MIT, Abdul-Kareem Ahmed completed medical school at Brown University. He is currently doing a neurosurgery residency at the University of Maryland. His writing work has appeared in The Pitt News, the student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh, and The New York Times.

GPSW Class of 2019

Diego Arenas

Astrophysics, biotechnology, health

GPSW 2004

Amitabh Avasthi

Documentary filmmaker, Nature Tango Films

GPSW 2013

Leslie Baehr

General sciences, marine biology

Leslie Baehr works in content strategy and branding for technical, scientific, and environmental companies. Her clients range from large corporations and global nonprofits to research institutions and advertising agencies. Previously, she was a content strategist and creative lead with The Linus Group, where she helped shift perceptions in science and healthcare through storytelling, and worked in editorial roles with Business Insider, the Natural Resources Defense Council, MIT, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and others.

GPSW 2012

Taylor Beck

Health, mental health, neuroscience

Taylor Beck is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, focused on the brain and mental health. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and other publications.

GPSW 2015

Rachel Becker

Environmental sciences, energy, health

Rachel Becker is an environment reporter at CalMatters, where she covers California's complex water challenges and water policy issues. She is a former science reporter for The Verge.

GPSW 2016

Eben Bein

Biology, climate science

Eben Bein is a freelance writer and the Massachusetts Field and Education Manager for Our Climate.

GPSW Class of 2020

Ashley Belanger

General sciences, neuroscience, public health

Ashley is a senior technology reporter covering innovation at Ars Technica. Prior to that, she was a 2020-2021 Knight Science Journalism Project Fellow.

GPSW 2010

James Scott Berdahl

Ecology, environmental sciences

James Scott Berdahl is a freelance writer based in the Yukon Territories, Canada.

GPSW 2011

Kristina Bjoran

Technology

Kristina Bjoran is a senior user experience strategist and writer based in Seattle, WA. She also edits the online magazine uxbooth.com.

GPSW Class of 2021

Anna Blaustein

Climate science, health

Anna Blaustein is a science communicator at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

GPSW 2004

Katherine Bourzac

Chemical engineering, computer science, materials science

Senior Correspondent, Chemical & Engineering News

GPSW 2005

Jennifer Boyce

GPSW 2014

Lindsay Brownell

Biology

Lindsay Brownell is a science writer at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

GPSW 2007

Ada Brunstein

Computer science, linguistics, neuroscience

Editor in Chief, US Reference at Oxford University Press

GPSW 2013

Alison Bruzek

General sciences

Alison Bruzek is a senior audio producer at The New York Times.

GPSW 2005

Kevin Bullis

Kevin Bullis is a Partner, Web Designer and Developer at little guy branding.

GPSW 2010

Joseph Calamia

Technology

Joseph Calamia is a science, tech, & math book editor at the University of Chicago Press. Prior to that he was a physical sciences acquisitions editor for Yale University Press.

GPSW 2011

Jordan Calmes

GPSW 2009

MacGregor Campbell

General sciences

MacGregor Campbell is a science writer and animator based in Portland, OR.

GPSW Class of 2022

Leah Campbell

Climate change, disaster management, environmental justice

Leah Campbell is a freelance writer and a communications specialist for the National Drought Mitigation Center. Her work can be found in Grist, Undark Magazine, Inside Climate News, Earth Island Journal, and Eos Magazine.

GPSW 2016

Catherine Caruso

General sciences

Catherine Caruso is a science writer at Harvard Medical School. Her work can be found at Catherinecaruso.com.

GPSW 2018

Laura Castañón

Environmental sciences, marine science, technology

Laura Castañón is a freelance science writer whose work can be found at Lauracastanon.com. She was formerly a science reporter at Northeastern University.

GPSW 2013

Hannah Cheng

Hannah is a freelance science writer and blogs at The Raptor Lab.

GPSW 2008

Grace Chua

Consultant, Kite Global Advisors

GPSW 2008

Allyson Collins

Health

Allyson Collins is the Senior Director of Integrated Marketing, Patient Communications & Engagement at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Prior to that, she has served in digital communications and editing positions for NYU Langone Health and the National Eye Institute.

GPSW 2011

Gillian Conahan

GPSW 2009

Anne-Marie Corley

General sciences

Anne-Marie Corley is a freelance writer and director of Community Experience at the Samarasa Center.

GPSW 2015

Christina Couch

General sciences, the legal system

Christina Couch is a freelance journalist and Assistant Director of Professional Development for the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing. She was a Fall 2020 Education Writers Association Reporting Fellow, where she covered federal, state, and private efforts to expand science education within US prisons and the almost nonexistent pathways into the sciences available to formerly incarcerated individuals. Her writing can be found in The New York Times, Fast Company, The Verge, Smithsonian, Hakai Magazine, Atlas Obscura, NOVA Next, Science Friday, Mental Floss Magazine, and elsewhere. 

GPSW 2012

Stephen Craft

Space, technology

Stephen Craft is a systems engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

GPSW Class of 2022

Iris Crawford

Climate change, environmental justice, race, income inequalities 

Iris Crawford is the senior climate justice editor at The NonProfit Quarterly. Her bylines can also be found in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sojourners Magazine, Eos Magazine, and Prism.

GPSW 2006

Selby Cull

Geology

Selby Cull is an assistant professor of Geology at Bryn Mawr College

GPSW Class of 2021

Robert Davis

Artificial intelligence, data science, data ownership, and global supply chains

Robert Davis is a science writer at IBM Quantum

GPSW Class of 2020

Fernanda de Araújo Ferreira

General sciences, health

Fernanda de Araújo Ferreira is a freelance science writer and fact checker based in Brazil

GPSW 2018

TJ Dimacali

Astronomy, general sciences

Timothy James (TJ) Dimacali is a science journalist and fiction writer based in Manila, Philippines.

GPSW Class of 2022

James Dinneen

Biotech, earth science, ecology, environmental science

James Dinneen is an environment reporter for New Scientist. His bylines can also be found in Quanta Magazine, National Geographic, Undark Magazine, The Boston Globe, bioGraphic, Science, and many more publications. He was a finalist for a 2022 National Magazine Award.

GPSW 2007

Will Dowd

Will Dowd's first book, a collection of essays titled Areas of Fog, was published in 2017 and received a Nonfiction “Must Read” award from the Massachusetts Book Awards. His radio essays have been broadcast on NPR member stations WBUR and WVIA. He currently writes a monthly newsletter called The Lunar Dispatch, which discusses the latest news about our nearest heavenly body. More information is available at Willdowd.net.

GPSW 2014

Julia Duke

Julia Duke is a freelance science writer based in Boston, MA.

GPSW 2009

Stephanie Dutchen

Biomedical research, medicine

Stephanie Dutchen is the Manager of Feature Content and Multimedia at Harvard Medical School. She has also served in editorial and content development roles at The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; The National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Ohio University; and The National Institutes of Health.

GPSW Class of 2022

Shel Evergreen

Astrophysics, climate science, ecology, equity, genetics, neuroscience

Shel Evergreen is a freelance reporter. Her work can be found in Ars Technica, MIT Technology Review, and Canary Media.

GPSW 2010

Joshua Feblowitz

Health, medicine

​Joshua Feblowitz is an emergency physician, medical researcher, and science writer based in Brookline, MA.

GPSW 2012

Garret Fitzpatrick

Astronomy, energy, general sciences

Garret Fitzpatrick worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center as a hardware engineer and project manager. Today, he is a Senior Systems Engineer at Shell TechWorks in Cambridge, MA.

GPSW Class of 2022

Emma Foehringer Merchant

Climate change, energy, environment, public health 

Emma Foehringer Merchant is a freelance journalist who covers climate and clean energy issues. Her work can be found in Grist, Undark Magazine, The Boston Globe, Inside Climate News, Canary Media, and the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting.

GPSW 2004

Jennifer Frazer

Biology, earth sciences

Freelance Science Writer/Blogger at Scientific American

GPSW Class of 2019

Eva Frederick

Biology, conservation, environmental sciences

Eva is a science writer and webmaster at The Whitehead Institute.

GPSW 2017

Greta Friar

Biomedical research, medicine

Greta Friar is Science Communications Officer at the Whitehead Institute and a freelance science writer, focusing predominantly on medicine and biomedical research.

GPSW Class of 2020

Rachel Fritts

Biology, marine sciences

Rachel Fritts is a science writer at the American Bird Conservancy. Her bylines can be found in The Guardian, Science News, Hakai Magazine, Inside Climate News, Science, Audubon, Undark, and Mongabay, among other outlets. Her portfolio is available at Rachelfritts.com.

GPSW 2007

Katharine Gammon

Child development, environmental sciences, technology, wildlife

Katharine Gammon is a freelance science writer in Santa Monica, California. She's written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Wired, National Geographic, The Guardian, and other outlets. Her work was featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2020 anthology and she currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. You can find her on Twitter at @kategammon.

GPSW 2016

Conor Gearin

Biology, environmental sciences

Conor Gearin is the managing producer of the podcast BirdNote. His bylines can also be found in New Scientist, The Atlantic, New Territory, Undark, and NOVA Next.

GPSW 2016

Claudia Geib

Environmental, marine, and wildlife sciences

Claudia Geib is a freelance science writer and the producer of Gastropod, a podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history

GPSW 2015

Cara Giaimo

Biology, ecology

Cara Giaimo is freelancing for the New York Times, putting together a wildlife-themed book for Atlas Obscura, and livetweeting her cats' lives at @cjgiaimo.

GPSW 2009

Anne Glausser

Health, general sciences

Anne Glausser is a producer for Cleveland's NPR/PBS station ideastream.

GPSW Class of 2021

Alison Gold

Public health, psychology, health and environmental policy

Ali Gold is a science writer at Verge Scientific Communications. Her portfolio is available at Alisonjgold.com.

GPSW 2015

Michael Greshko

General sciences

Michael Greshko is a science writer at National Geographic.

GPSW Class of 2021

Elizabeth Gribkoff

Environmental science, health

Elizabeth Gribkoff is the outreach and communications manager for the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Previously, she was an energy and environment reporter at VTDigger.org. Her bylines can also be found in The Guardian, Environmental Health News, Science, and Eos magazine.

GPSW 2017

Giorgia Guglielmi

Life sciences, science policy, science and society

Giorgia Guglielmi is a freelance journalist covering the life sciences, science policy, and issues in science and society. She holds a PhD in biology and has written and edited articles for publications including Nature, Science, and NOVA Next.

GPSW 2003

Erico Guizzo

Robotics, technology

Robotics Editor at IEEE Spectrum

GPSW Class of 2021

Kelso Harper

Mental health, nutrition

Kelso Harper is a multimedia editor at Scientific American. Her freelance work can be found in Popular Mechanics, Science, and Retro Report.

GPSW 2008

Lissa Harris

Local, Climate, Environment

Lissa Harris is a staff writer at The River and a volunteer firefighter. She was the founding editor of the Watershed Post, a site that covered local news in the rural Catskills from 2010 to 2017.

GPSW 2003

Timothy Haynes

Technology

Emerging technology consultant, Signal & Story

GPSW Class of 2020

Jessie Hendricks

Science documentary, general science

Jessie Hendricks is the Senior Creative Producer of Digital Content Strategy at the J. Paul Getty Trust.

GPSW 2011

Emily Ruppel Herrington

Bioethics, science in society

Emily Ruppel Herrington is a Ph.D. student in communication at the University of Pittsburgh with focus areas in rhetoric of science, bioethics, STS, feminist theory, and oral history.

GPSW 2013

Zahra Hirji

Climate science, environmental sciences

Zahra Hirji is a climate reporter at Bloomberg Green. Previously, Zahra was a senior science reporter at BuzzFeed News and staff writer at Inside Climate News, where she covered natural gas drilling, fossil fuel divestment, renewable energy policy, and climate science, among other issues.

GPSW 2007

Christine Hoekenga

Environment

Environmental Educator and Science Communicator

GPSW 2004

Courtney Humphries

General sciences, health

Courtney Humphries is a freelance writer whose bylines can be found in Boston Globe, MIT Technology Review, Nautilus, Politico, CityLab, New Scientist, Nature, Science, Wired, The Atlantic, and other publications. She is also a PhD candidate in environmental sciences at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the author of Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan….And the World.

GPSW 2018

Fatima Husain

Astrobiology, geochemistry, geology

Fatima Husain is a Curiosity Correspondent at the MIT Museum, where she produces and hosts a digital video series for an international audience of primary and secondary school students.

GPSW 2003

Matthew Hutson

Psychology, technology

Matthew Hutson is a freelance science writer in New York City. He’s written for Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and other outlets. He’s the author of The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking (Penguin / Hudson Street, 2012).

GPSW 2014

Suzanne Jacobs

Physics, technology

Suzanne Jacobs is a science writer and graduate student in the physics department at the University of Texas at Austin.

GPSW Class of 2020

Lucy Jakub

Biology, general sciences

Lucy Jakub is an associate editor at The New York Review of Books

GPSW 2004

Carolyn Johnson

Health, medicine

Science Reporter, The Washington Post

GPSW 2018

Ashley Junger

Ecology, environmental sustainability, zoology

Ashley Junger is a science and grant writer at Earthwatch Institute in Boston, MA.

GPSW 2017

Robin Kazmier

Ecology, environmental sciences, general sciences

Robin is a science editor at NOVA. She is also the author of National Parks of Costa Rica.

GPSW 2014

Abi Nighthill Knopp

General sciences

Abi (Nighthill) Knopp is a freelance science writer based in Northampton, MA.

GPSW 2013

Trent Knoss

General sciences

Trent Knoss is the managing editor at The Institute for Science & Policy. Prior to that, he was a science writer and media relations specialist at the University of Colorado Boulder.

GPSW 2012

Hannah Krakauer

General sciences

Hannah Krakauer is a senior communications specialist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science

GPSW 2017

Brandon Levy

Health, medicine

Brandon Levy is a Health Communications Specialist for the NIH’s Intramural Research Program, where he works to increase the Intramural Research Program’s public profile. You can find his work at right over here.

GPSW Class of 2019

Devi Lockwood

Climate change, environmental sciences

Devi is the author of 1,001 Voices on Climate Change, published August 24, 2021 by Simon & Schuster (Tiller Press), and the Commentary and Ideas editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Previously she was the Ideas Editor at Rest of World and a fellow at The New York Times.

GPSW 2005

Maureen McDonough Lyons

Maureen McDonough Lyons is a partner at Pod Consulting.

GPSW 2003

Karen MacArthur

GPSW 2011

Allison MacLachlan

Behavioral sciences, health

Marketing Manager, Owlkids Books

GPSW Class of 2019

Emily Makowski

Environmental sciences, life sciences, health

Emily Makowski is a communications specialist at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. Her bylines can be found in The Scientist and Environmental Health News. Her portfolio can be found at Emilymakowski.com.

GPSW 2010

Amanda R. Martinez

General science, marine biology

Amanda R. Martinez is the Chief Creative Officer and head of brand at Prometheus, an energy company that turns CO2 from the air into zero net carbon fuels and carbon-negative products. You can find her at amandarosemartinez.com.

GPSW 2012

Abby McBride

Ecology, environment

Abby McBride is a sketch biologist, Fulbright–National Geographic Storytelling Fellow, and illustrator of the book Birdpedia from Princeton University Press.

GPSW Class of 2021

Alice McBride

Ecology, general sciences

GPSW 2003

Sorcha McDonagh

Sorcha McDonagh is a literary translator based in London, UK.

GPSW 2017

Raleigh McElvery

Biology, chemical engineering, neuroscience

Raleigh McElvery is the Scientific Communications Editor at the National Cancer Institute’s Neuro-Oncology Branch. Previously, she was a science writer and multimedia producer for the MIT Department of Biology. She is also a freelance science journalist and has written for Science, Nature, Discover Magazine, Quanta Magazine, Chemical & Engineering News, MIT Technology Review, NOVA Next, and more.

GPSW 2017

Bennett McIntosh

Chemistry, genetics, technology

Bennett McIntosh is a freelance science writer and a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin

GPSW 2006

Philip McKenna

Climate science, energy, environmental sciences

Reporter at InsideClimate News

GPSW 2011

Stephanie McPherson

General sciences

Stephanie McPherson is a freelance writer and video producer whose work has appeared in outlets such as the Boston Globe Magazine, NOVA Next,, and the national radio show Living on Earth.

GPSW 2018

Heather Mongilio

Health policy, neuroscience, mental health

Heather Mongilio is a reporter for USNI News. Prior to that, she was a Report for America fellow covering military affairs for The Capital Gazette. and the Health and Fort Detrick reporter at The Frederick News-Post.

GPSW 2003

Maywa Montenegro

Agroecology, environmental science, science policy

Mayway Montenegro is an assistant professor in environmental studies at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she studies agroecology from a social science perspective.

GPSW 2014

Alix Morris

Environmental sciences, public health

Alix Morris is the Director of Communications at Earthwatch Institute and freelance science writer.

GPSW 2008

Andrew Moseman

Engineering, technology

Andrew is a science writer at the California Institute of Technology. Previously, he was the interim science editor at Smithsonian.com and the digital director of Popular Mechanics.

GPSW 2012

Conor Myhrvold

Senior Program Manager, Tech, at Uber

GPSW 2007

Erica Naone

GPSW 2006

Susan Nasr

Health, medicine

Susan Nasr worked as a science writer at MIT Technology Review, Physician's First Watch, Children's Hospital in Boston, and at HowStuffWorks.com before pursuing a career in medicine.

GPSW 2015

Anna Nowogrodzki

Biotechnology, public health, technology

Anna Nowogrodzki is the Impact Editor at Nature and a freelance journalist. Anna's work has appeared in The New York Times, Nature, Slate, and National Geographic. Her portfolio is available at https://annanowogrodzki.wordpress.com.

GPSW 2004

Megan Ogilvie

Data enterprise, health

Megan Ogilvie is a health reporter at the Toronto Star.

GPSW 2006

Stephen Ornes

Cancer research, math, physics, technology,

Stephen Ornes is a science writer and author based in Nashville, TN, whose work has appeared in Discover, Scientific American, New Scientist, Science News for Students, and the Front Matter section of PNAS.

GPSW Class of 2019

Brittany Flaherty Payne

Ecology, health, medicine

Brittany is currently Director of Editorial Content at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

GPSW Class of 2020

Kate S. Petersen

Biology, climate change, ecology

Kate Petersen is a reporter at USA Today.

GPSW 2016

Margaux Phares

Biology

Margaux Phares is a science writer at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

GPSW 2016

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Climate science, environmental sciences

Kendra Pierre-Louis is a senior reporter for the climate-focused podcast How to Save a Planet. Previously, she was a climate reporter with The New York Times and a staff writer for Popular Science.

GPSW Class of 2019

Emily Pontecorvo

Energy, environmental sciences, health, technology

Emily is a founding staff writer at Heatmap News. Formerly, she was a reporter at Grist.

GPSW 2007

Elizabeth Quill

General sciences

Elizabeth Quill is the Enterprise Editor for Science News.

GPSW 2007

Jocelyn Rice

Biology, biomedicine, biotechnology

Jocelyn Rice is the Assistant Managing Editor at the American Economic Association.

GPSW 2014

Jenny Rood

Biology

Jenny Rood is the gRED Communications Manager at Genentech. Prior to joining Genentech, she spent more than five and a half years at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, working in the development office and then as a direct scientific writing adviser to lead scientists at the institute. She earned a Ph.D. in biology from MIT prior to entering the Graduate Program in Science Writing.

GPSW Class of 2022

Maria Rose

Climate migration, environmental justice, land use planning, population biology

Maria Parazo Rose is a reporter and spatial data analyst at Grist.

GPSW 2013

Aviva Rutkin

Data, math

Aviva Hope Rutkin works on the news automation team at Bloomberg. Prior to that, she was the data and math editor at The Conversation US. She has also reported on science and tech for New Scientist, BBC, MIT Technology Review, and other outlets.

GPSW 2018

Francesca Schembri

Science policy, technology

Frankie Schembri is a freelance science and technology reporter. She was formerly the audience engagement editor for Undark and marketing manager for the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program at MIT. Her work has appeared in Science, MIT Technology Review, and Scientific American.

GPSW 2015

Sarah Schwartz

Biology, earth and environmental sciences, general sciences

Sarah Schwartz recently earned a Ph.D. in microbiology from MIT. Previously, she was a reporter and researcher at Science News and a freelance writer and fact checker.

GPSW 2014

Emma Sconyers

Health, medicine

Emma Sconyers is a program manager at Mass General Brigham. She was formerly a communications manager at Partners HealthCare and a communications project manager for Population Health.

GPSW 2008

Megan Scudellari

Biology, health, technology

Megan Scudellari is an award-winning science journalist in Boston, MA. She has written for Nature, Newsweek, Bloomberg News, Scientific American, and others. She co-authored a college biology textbook, Biology Now, now entering its third edition from publisher W. W. Norton.

GPSW 2012

Fangfei Shen

Technology

Fangfei Shen is a software engineer at Dropbox.

GPSW 2010

Morgan Sherburne

Astronomy, chemistry, math, physics

Public Relations Representative, University of Michigan News

GPSW Class of 2021

Saima Sidik

Ecology and Earth Science

Saima Sidik is a freelancer based in Cambridge, MA. Her bylines can be found in Nature, Boston Globe Magazine, Eos, Hakai Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, and Ars Technica. Her portfolio is available at Saimamay.com.

GPSW 2006

Michelle Sipics

Health, math, technology

Michelle Sipics is the Editorial Lead at Accenture Technology Innovation. She has also held previous content development and editorial strategy roles at the Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, the Yale University School of Engineering & Applied Science, and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

GPSW 2015

Joshua Sokol

Astronomy, natural history

Joshua Sokol is an award-winning science writer with work appearing in The Atlantic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

GPSW 2009

Lisa Song

Environment, energy, climate change

Lisa Song is an investigative environment and climate change reporter at ProPublica. Previously, she was a staff writer at Inside Climate News where she won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

GPSW 2005

Siri Steiner

Health, medicine

Medical Writer at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

GPSW 2003

Anna Lee Strachan

Astrobiology, neuroscience, space

Anna Lee Strachan is an Emmy-nominated freelance producer for PBS’s NOVA series.

GPSW 2010

Nidhi Subbaraman

Environmental science, health, technology

Nidhi is a science reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Previously, she was a science reporter at BuzzFeed News and Nature News. She has also worked at the Boston Globe and NBC News.

GPSW Class of 2021

Nafisa Syed

Medicine, public health

GPSW 2017

Kate Telma

Health, medicine

Kate Telma is a science writer based in Cambridge, MA, whose work has appeared in NOVA Next, MIT News, Hearing Health, and Undark magazine.

GPSW 2017

Maria Temming

Technology

Maria Temming is a technology reporter at Science News. She has also written for Scientific American, Sky & Telescope, and NOVA Next.

GPSW 2005

Emily Kagan Trenchard

Technology

Vice President, Digital and Innovation Strategy at Northwell Health

GPSW 2012

Lauren Trew

GPSW 2018

Kelsey Tsipis

General sciences, health, science policy

Kelsey Tsipis is a science writer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

GPSW Class of 2019

Madeleine Turner

Ecology, technology

Madeleine is a science writer, video producer, and social media specialist at the Whitehead Institute

GPSW Class of 2022

Grace van Deelen

General science, natural sciences

Grace van Deelen is a reporter at The New Lede. Her bylines can also be found in Inside Climate News, Environmental Health News, Audubon Magazine, and Eos.

GPSW 2008

Rachel VanCott

GPSW 2008

Iris Vargas

GPSW 2004

Mara Vatz

GPSW 2011

Kenrick Vezina

Ecology, technology

Kenrick Venzina is a science writer, editor, educator, critic, and naturalist. His work has been published in MIT Technology Review, Harvard's Colloquy Magazine, Northern Woodlands magazine, How We Get To Next, Oceans at MIT and the Genetic Literacy Project. 

GPSW Class of 2019

Gina Vitale

General sciences, health

Gina is life sciences reporter at Chemical and Engineering News. Her full portfolio is available at Ginavitale.com.

GPSW 2009

Genevieve Wanucha

Health, medicine

Genevieve Wanucha is the science writer for the UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center and the UW Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

GPSW 2013

Erin Weeks

Ecology, environmental sciences

Erin Weeks is a science writer based in Charleston, SC, specializing in ecology, the environment, and natural resources. Her work can be found in Charleston Magazine, The Scientist, Living on Earth radio, and MIT Technology Review.

GPSW 2014

Sam Wotipka

Biology, environmental sciences

Sam Wotipka works for Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission as a Exhibit Development Coordinator.

GPSW 2008

Ashley Yeager

General sciences

Ashley Yeager is the associate news editor at Science News. Her first book, Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin, was published in August 2021. Her portfolio can be found here.

GPSW 2013

Sarah Yu

General sciences

Sarah Yu, GPSW '13, wrote her thesis on the complex interactions between humans and butterflies, focusing specifically on people whose lifestyles are significantly intertwined with butterflies.

GPSW Class of 2022

Shafaq Zia

Autism research, health and environmental policy, healthcare technology, history of science

Shafaq Zia is an editorial associate at the Santa Fe Institute. Her bylines can also be found in The New York Times, STAT, The Scientist, Spectrum, and many more publications.