I’m a biologist turned science reporter covering all things food–from how a quickly evolving pathogen is threatening the pickle industry to why robots aren’t delivering our dinners yet.

My writing has appeared in NPR, Science News, Undark, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Lancaster Farming, Civil Eats, TED-Ed, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Front Matter, Yale E360, Food and Environment Reporting Network, Slate, New Scientist, and other outlets.

I earned a BA in English from Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in biology from the University of Virginia with a focus on plant ecology and evolution.

After graduating and working as a science communicator for the National Institutes of Health, I made the leap to science journalism via an AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship at NPR’s science desk. In 2025, I was an MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow and an NYU Climate Economics Journalism Fellow.

When I’m not hunting down the next story, I’m often running, attempting (and failing) to tame my wild garden, or searching for insects with my husband and three sons here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.