Position:
Blogger at Wired Digital, Blogger, Weird & Wild at National Geographic Society, Freelance Science Writer at Self Employed, Writer/Content Expander at Providence Alliance for Clinical Educators
Work:
Wired Digital
since Jul 2013
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Blogger
National Geographic Society
since Jun 2013
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Blogger, Weird & Wild
Self Employed
since May 2011
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Freelance Science Writer
Providence Alliance for Clinical Educators
- Providence, Rhode Island Area since Aug 2011
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Writer/Content Expander
Psychology Today
Feb 2012 - May 2013
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Blogger
American Association for the Advancement of Science
May 2011 - Mar 2013
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Blogger
Izilwane
Sep 2011 - Jan 2013
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Writer/Reporter
Living on Earth
- Somerville, MA Jan 2012 - May 2012
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Editorial Intern
Wildscreen USA
Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
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Writing Intern, ARKive.org
Brown University
Sep 2006 - May 2011
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Graduate Student
Focus, the magazine of the Harvard Medical, Dental and Public Health Schools
Jun 2010 - Aug 2010
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Science Writing Intern
New England Aquarium
Sep 2003 - May 2005
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Necropsy/Rescue and Rehabilitation Intern
Boston VA Research Institute, Inc.
Jul 2002 - Aug 2003
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Research Assistant
Education:
Brown University 2006 - 2011
MS, PhD, Experimental Psychology
Skidmore College 1998 - 2002
BA, Biology-Psychology, Minor in English
Honor & Awards:
Brown University Dissertation Fellowship (2010-2011), Heiligenberg Student Travel Award to attend the 9th International Congress of Neuroethology (2010), Sigma Xi (admitted as full member 2010), Best Student Paper in Animal Bioacoustics at the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (2009), NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Fellowship (2007-2008), Brown University Graduate Fellowship (2006-2007), Phi Beta Kappa (2002), Michelle Kelly '72 Psychology Award (Skidmore College, 2002), Thoroughbred Leadership Award (Skidmore College, 2002), Krawiec Prize in Psychology (Skidmore College, 2001), Psi Chi the Psychology Honor Society (2001), Periclean Honor Society (2000)