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 The Washington Post, Business Insider, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, Vox, AARP, and US News & World Report.

I’m passionate about, 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.

I love writing just plain delightful stories, too! I’ve immersed myself in quirky trends and subcultures, including 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’m a nationally-recognized voice of reason, having appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, many local TV stations, and, in 2023, Hulu’s “Age of Influence.” I’ve also appeared on several media- and writing-related podcasts.

I’ve led panels at the Association of Healthcare Journalists’ annual conference, been named a “Top Femtech Reporter Destigmatizing Women’s Health Taboos,” and been awarded multiple training fellowships through the National Press Foundation.

A champion for the field of journalism, I serve on the board of the Deadline Club, as a coach for the New York Writing Room, and as the New York City chapter lead for the Association of Healthcare Journalists. I’ve also held positions with the American News Women’s Club and the National Press Club. 

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.

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