Staff writer, The Tribune
5/04-present
County
government, politics and, most recently, health and social issues reporter for this 40,000-circ Knight Ridder daily. Traveled to Nicaragua on assignment for 2 weeks for a story that later won 3rd place in explanatory journalism in the Inland Press Association's national 2005 contest. (2nd largest circ. division)
Staff writer and photographer, South Coast Beacon
12/02-5/04
My general assignment and science
coverage helped propel this 4-writer startup to 1st in general excellence among California's
biggest weeklies in 2003
Freelance writer, editor and photographer
9/01-present
My work as
appeared in The Boston Globe, Natural History Magazine, E Magazine, Rock and Ice,
Climbing, The Christian Science Monitor, Scuba Diving and
others. Click here for a partial
client list
Other jobs
Science writer, NOAA
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Editor and writing tutor
For graduate,
undergrad & ESL students at Boston U.
Teaching asistant
For
graduate TV science journalism class at Boston U.
Miscellany
Educator:
New England Aquarium, SB Zoo
Biologist/Scuba Instructor: British Virgin
Islands
Dive Instructor: Ton Sai, Thailand
Biology Field Tech: Kaikoura, NZ
Climbing Guide & Instructor: SB, CA |
2005 Inland Press Association Contest
Judged in national 25,000 to 75,000 circ. division
••• Third place, Explanatory Journalism
2005 Poynter Medical CAR Journalism Fellow
2005 California
Endowment Health Journalism Fellow
2003 CNPA Better Newspapers Contest
Judged in the largest CA weekly division
••• First place, General
Excellence
••• Second place, Public
Service
••• Finalist, Writing
2003 Berlinale Talent Campus Invitee
2002 Casey Journalism Center Fellow
2002 Santa Barbara Foundation Fellow
2001, 2002 Knight Scholarship
1999 American Alpine Club Fellowship
1999 REI Challenge Fund Recipient
1999 Ritt Kellogg Memorial Fund Recipient
1998 Stabler Scholar for Marine Science
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