Portfolio
In my career as a science communicator, I've had the opportunity to contribute to teams at The Grass Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, The Kavli Foundation, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
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Below are a few of my favorite pieces.
WRITING
Eponyms are scientific names for species that refer to people, but for mollusks, almost 90% of those people are men. Malacology Curator Jann Vendetti’s research explores the nepotism, sexism, and more behind the naming of species—and how we can do better.
Picture two red, double-decker buses rolling into a park in Cambridge, England. They have bright signage about artificial intelligence and how it has become, and will continue to be, part of our everyday lives. Aboard the buses are AI researchers each sitting at a table with a 15-minute hourglass timer and a pad of paper. No research slides or prepared talks, but a willingness to chat with interested passersby about their work. It’s called The Hopes and Fears Lab.
WRITING AND VIDEO
I had the pleasure of speaking with Mazhar Ali at the Delft University of Technology about the multidisciplinary endeavor to achieve broadband quantum transduction. Now what does that mean? Well, we have mastered many methods for transducing classical computing information -- it's how you are probably using Wifi to read the words on this screen or how the sound waves of your voice are encoded by a microphone and sent miles away when you meet on Zoom. But now we must do the same thing for quantum signals. So far we've managed to send a single band of information—the quantum equivalent of Morse code—but remaining hurdles require basic science research and creative thinking. When I sent Dr. Ali the video I edited from our zoom discussion, he was thrilled with the result and described my explanation as, "Seriously brilliant."
