I am a freelance science journalist and writer based in Denver, CO. I have a MA in science writing from Johns Hopkins University. I currently contribute regularly to TheBody while pitching other assignments. My work has appeared in The Scientist, Audubon, Slate, Them, and other publications.

Binary thinking pervades our culture: true or false, right or wrong, male or female. But reality is more nuanced. I hope my writing encourages people to explore the gray, in-between spaces.

Selected Clips:

Illustration of a woman colored in red trapped inside of a cage.

The Body: Sex Workers With HIV Forever Entrapped by Tennessee Law

The law brands sex workers with the virus “violent sex offenders,” severely limiting where they can work, live, and even exist.

The Scientist: Animals Are Shape-Shifting in Response to a Warming World

Forced to respond to a climate that’s changing faster than it ever has, it remains unclear whether species’ adaptations can keep pace.

A white man swabs his upper gum with an HIV home-test kit.

Slate: Send Every American a Free Home HIV Test

We’re all used to swabbing now, and the government has committed to diagnosing people as early as possible.

A deer mouse sits on a sand dune with sparse plants sprouting from the ground.

The Scientist: Are We In the Midst of a Silent Mass Extinction?

A new modeling technique aims to help scientists and policymakers detect declines in genetic diversity based on habitat loss.

A man in a lab examining a test tube. Source: Getty Images/sanjeri

The Body: When Will We Have a Gonorrhea Vaccine?

A partially effective vaccine exists but is not yet approved to prevent gonorrhea. Hopefully more effective ones are in development.

A white man and woman, both in wheelchairs parked on a bridge, look up through binoculars searching for a bird.

Audubon: This New Program in Denver Is Paving the Way for Birders With Reduced Mobility

Birding Without Barriers is part of a national movement to ensure that mobility impairment does not hinder people from enjoying nature.

A Black man hugs a sleeping baby to his chest.

Them: Clinicians Rarely Discuss Fatherhood With HIV-Positive Gay Men. Here’s Why

If you’re HIV+, you can absolutely father children. But healthcare providers assumed gay men wouldn’t want to.

aidsmap: Headlines linking people with HIV to COVID variants are at best incomplete, at worst stigmatising

To be clear, people with HIV are not “COVID mutation factories.”

Fernanda, the giant tortoise from Fernandina Island in the Galapagos crawls on the ground.

The Scientist: When an Extinct Species Is Found Alive, What Happens Next?

Finding a creature in the wild that had been considered long gone brings hope—and quite a bit of uncertainty.

The head of a great-tailed grackle turns to the left of the image, showing its eye, which is dark black in the middle surrounded by a bright yellow ring.

Audubon: Great-Tailed Grackles’ Googly Eyes Offer a New Glimpse Into Bird Vision

They’re the first bird species known to look at two objects simultaneously.