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Staff writer, The Tribune
5/04-5/06
Health and social issues reporter for this 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). Another 2005 story on hospital billing won first place in the state for business writing from the California Newspaper Publishers Association.
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
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2005 California Newspaper Publisher's Association Contest
••• First Place, Business Reporting
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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Boston University
MS in Science & Medical
Journalism
Colorado College
BA in
Environmental Biology/English
University of California at Santa Barbara
Coral larvae
research in Bonaire
Duke University, OTS
Study
abroad in Costa Rica |
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NASW • National
Association of Science Writers
AHCJ • Association
of Health Care Journalists
PPA • Professional Photographers
of America
AAUS • Scientific Diver
PADI • Open Water Scuba Instructor
EMT-1 • Emergency Medical
Technician |
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