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I’m a digital storyteller with a decade of experience making science and other technical subjects accessible and even delightful.

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Articles

Science

“Worried about Alzheimer’s? Try getting some sleep,” Yale Alumni Magazine, 2025
“The quest to reinvent anesthesia,” UCSF Magazine, 2025
“What we could gain from weight-loss drugs,” Yale Alumni Magazine, 2025
“Remembrance: Susan Cotts Watkins’ groundbreaking research on AIDS in Africa,” Princeton Alumni Weekly, 2025
“Clearing the air: Cash incentives can reduce crop burning,” Yale Alumni Magazine, 2025
“Can forgiveness help you be a more resilient parent?,” Greater Good Magazine, 2024
“Treating youth violence as a disease gets results,” UCSF, 2024
“ChatGPT’s latest bot behaves like humans, only better, study finds,” Stanford, 2024
“80,000-plus characters, one keyboard: China’s fight to join the digital age,” Stanford, 2024
“California’s anti-smoking push spurs big savings in health costs,” UCSF, 2023
“What makes us human? Mostly gene regulation,” UCSF, 2022
“Model shows where women lost access to abortion after Dobbs,” UCSF, 2022
“Lower salt trumps other lifestyle changes in combating high blood pressure, model shows,” UCSF 2022
“For checking blood pressure at home, basic cuffs are just as good,” UCSF, 2022
“New study challenges the value of so-called ‘beating heart’ surgery,” UCSF, 2022
“Study links air pollution to nearly 6 million preterm births around the world,” UCSF, 2021
“When expecting moms eat better, babies see benefits through first years,” UCSF, 2021
“Study attributes 60-70% of excess heart disease among low-income Americans to poverty,” UCSF, 2020
“The ethanol effect,” Mother Jones, 2007

Other

“Civil Dialogues program helps freshmen tackle tough conversations,” Stanford, 2024
“Stanford art historian uncovers portrait linked to famed female Renaissance painter,” Stanford, 2024
“For writer Molly Antopol, silences create room for fiction,” Stanford, 2024
“For poet Aracelis Girmay, poetry is a way of thinking through complexity,” Stanford, 2024
“80,000-plus characters, one keyboard: China’s fight to join the digital age,” Stanford, 2024
“Crash Course: Cal and its surge of foreign freshmen struggle to adjust to one another,” California Magazine, 2013
“The Continuing Evolution of 24th Street,” cover story, SF Weekly, 2013

Advertorial

“New concussion guidelines emphasize active recovery,” UCSF Health, 2024
Newsletter, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2023
Institute for Global Health Sciences annual report, 2021
Robotic hybrid coronary revascularization, patient brochure, Stanford School of Medicine, 2017