Welcome! I’m a freelance health and lifestyle journalist with 15 years of experience writing features, narratives, explainers, profiles, research summaries, and news hits for national print and digital publications including New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, Vox, AARP, and US News & World Report.

I’m passionate, and skilled in, telling sensitive human interest stories. Some of the pieces I’m most proud of have covered the maternal suicide crisis, the prevalence of ADHD in elite athletes, and the emergence of trendy sobriety clubs. My 2024 New York magazine investigation into a luxurious postpartum retreat was featured in the publication’s “One Great Story” newsletter.

I love writing just plain delightful stories, too! I’ve immersed myself in quirky trends and subcultures, covering competitive pole dancing, cold-water swimming, White Claw, and (faulty, in my humble opinion) “biological age” tests.

From 2019 to 2023, I was a senior health reporter, then health correspondent, at Insider, where I led the publication’s reproductive health coverage, and served as the team’s go-to features and analysis writer.

Prior to that, I wrote news-you-can-use pieces on fitness, nutrition, sleep, wellness trends, parenting, relationships, mental health, and more for US News & World Report. I also managed and edited the Eat+Run blog.

I started my career writing for health trade publications, including at the American Psychological Association and George Washington University Medical Center.

I’ve been a guest on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and many local TV stations. In 2023, I was featured on Hulu’s Age of Influence, as was my reporting. I’ve also appeared on several media- and writing-related podcasts.

A champion for the field of journalism and freelancing in particular, I serve as  the Association of Healthcare Journalists’ freelance “beat leader,” helping other freelance health reporters create a career and life they love. I’ve also served on the board of the Deadline Club and am a writing coach through the New York Writing Room.

I graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with high honors from the University of Michigan in 2009, where I studied psychology and gender & health. On the weekends from 2012-2014, I earned my master’s degree in interactive journalism from American University.

I now live with my husband in Brooklyn, where I can be found swimming at the YMCA, working from a local brewery, or walking our basset hound Lou Longbody.

Find me on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram. Email me at annamemi [at] gmail [dot] com.