Laura Martin Agudelo is a science journalist with a humanities background. Growing up in Bogotá, she learned from her grandfather that curiosity is a way of life—whether tracking ants in the forest or devouring books together. This mindset convinced her that science and the humanities aren’t just connected, they are inseparable.

After receiving two degrees in social sciences from Sorbonne University, she became a staff reporter at La Revue du Praticien, a French medical journal, where she has covered public health for the past five years.

At MIT, Laura is eager to expand her beats and witness how science unfolds. She hopes to keep crafting stories that bridge disciplines and cultures to bring complex scientific issues closer to everyone. When she’s not at her desk, you’ll probably find her dancing because, much like writing, it’s all about rhythm.

Zoe Beketova is a writer from Moscow and London with a master’s degree in developmental neuroscience. She spent the past three years between University College London and Yale University researching the causal mechanisms of psychosis. Outside the lab, Zoe has covered topics ranging from genomics and fertility fraud to hospital bankruptcy and nursing shortages.

At MIT, Zoe is excited to sharpen her investigative skills and write about science policy, especially concerning AI governance and global health. When not at her desk, Zoe can be found hiking or reading fiction books.

Ashley D’Souza writes to bring people closer to the nature around them. They believe that conservation efforts depend on individuals developing personal relationships with wildlife. Their passion for the environment led them to journalism.

After moving from Austin, Texas to Boston, they left a career in software engineering and started blogging about birds. They’ve spent the last two years as a freelance multimedia journalist, covering topics from bird flu and beech leaf disease to anti-abortion centers and housing inequity. Their work appears in Pride Source, Brookline.News, The Margins, and more.

At MIT, Ashley is excited to expand their reporting into national outlets, hone their conservation beat, and explore new forms of science journalism. You can find them performing with their band around Boston and talking to plants and animals in the woods.

Ana Georgescu is a writer and science communicator originally from Romania. She studied astrophysics and physics at Harvard and most recently worked at a science communications agency in New York City, supporting early-stage biotech and space health organizations in translating complex science for broader audiences. Her projects have spanned topics including gene therapy, neurological disorders, precision oncology, and astronaut health.

As a 2025 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellow in physics writing, Ana is particularly interested in how discoveries in the physical sciences take shape, not just through data, but through the people, institutions, and tensions that move science forward. She hopes to develop a voice that brings clarity and nuance to complex topics while capturing the narrative richness that surrounds scientific stories.

In her free time, she likes discussing what her friends are reading, frequents the Brattle and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and lives in a never-ending cycle of half-baked hobbies, like roller skating, playing chess, and most recently trying to play the harmonica.

Jamie Jiang reports on disasters. For the last three years, that meant reporting on wildfire survivors and solutions to catastrophic wildfires in far Northern California. Jamie graduated with a bachelor’s in linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She got hooked on investigative journalism when she broke a story about COVID-19 outbreaks in Missouri prisons. Since then, she’s been writing about disasters and how people recover from them. Her work has aired on public radio stations, including Kansas City’s KCUR 89.3FM, Northern California’s North State Public Radio, Sacramento’s CapRadio, and others. She currently works as a reporter and research assistant to an incarcerated environmental journalist.

At MIT, Jamie wants to learn how to tell stories about climate events and public health that make sense for a local audience. She spends her free time birdwatching, spoiling her two cats, and keeping up with an ever-expanding list of podcasts.

Lucie McCormick is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and science journalist. Coming from an arts background, she found her way to science through a love of the night sky and eclipse chasing. Her projects in documentary production and news have focused on astronomy, rare geological formations, environmental impacts on mental health, and structural disparities in urban green spaces. Her work has been published in Scientific American, ABC News, PBS, and the BBC, among other outlets.

At MIT, Lucie plans to grow her skills in science storytelling. Outside of work, Lucie’s interests include martial arts, getting into nature, and hunting for spicy food.

Alex Megerle is a biologist-turned-writer who loves a good story and the wild things in life. If you’re ever in the mood to watch a nature documentary, Alex is your guy!

Originally from New Jersey, Alex has combined childhood loves of zoology and creative writing into a budding science communication career. He has written for The Enterprise newspapers on Cape Cod, the nonprofit Advocates for Snake Preservation, and the world-renowned Marine Biological Laboratory. At MIT, he’s excited to grow as a communicator and to cover the natural world and humanity’s relationship with it.

Alex’s heart is split between the Northeast, the West Coast, New Mexico, and Ireland. Beyond communicating science, he loves writing fantasy, hiking and hunting for critters, watching ice hockey, and being with loved ones.

Julia Vaz is a journalist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She recently graduated from Brown University with degrees in Political Science and Modern Culture & Media. While at Brown, she led The Brown Daily Herald as Managing Editor of Newsroom and Vice President of The Herald‘s Editorial Board. Before that, she oversaw the paper’s environmental coverage. She has covered climate change, policy, and environmental justice for Heatmap News, Inside Climate News, and New Hampshire Public Radio.

At MIT, Julia hopes to deepen her understanding of both the science and social impacts behind climate change. Her goal is to find ways to innovate environmental stories, focusing on local communities and their relationship to nature. When she isn’t reporting, Julia can be found reading, going on long walks, and trying to find the best coffee in town.