Welcome to my website.

I’m a journalist and content coach who specializes in feature reporting and writing, as well as digital and visual storytelling.  My specialty is covering science, medicine, and business.

I’ve worked as a staff reporter and technology editor at magazines like Business Week and Discover, and have also written extensively for The New York Times, covering a wide swath of topics in the areas of personal finance, urban redevelopment, employment law, and commercial real estate.   Since 2011, I’ve also taught journalism at St. John’s University in Queens, New York.

In 2000, my New York Times investigative front-page story about nooses and racial harassment in the workplace won the Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York.  My science reporting has won awards from the American Diabetes Association, the National Society of Professional Engineers, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery,  and the Aviation/Space Writer’s Association.

At St. John’s,  I’ve taught classes in news reporting and writing, feature writing, the history of journalism, business journalism, magazine journalism, and introductory journalism.  With my students, I emphasize both multimedia and immersive storytelling, digital news gathering and writing, and visual and graphics journalism. Since 2015 I’ve also helped judge the student magazines submitted annually for the Mark of Excellence awards administered by the Society of Professional Journalists.

In the past my work has also appeared in Information Week, International Wildlife, The Journal of Commerce, Managed Care Insights,  Athena, and the science magazine produced by Rockefeller University.   Before becoming a professional journalist, I worked as a  technical information writer for the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C., and as a science writing intern for both the Scripps Institute of Oceanography  (La Jolla, Calif.), and the California State Legislature in Sacramento.

I hold an M.S. degree in Interdisciplinary Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with an emphasis on science writing), as well as a B.A. in psychobiology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.