Emma is a science journalist. She holds a Master’s degree from Boston University in Science and Medical Journalism as well as a Bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Lafayette College. She’ll write about anything that makes her stroke her imaginary beard and wipe her non-existent reading glasses, but her passions primarily lie in medicine and neuroscience.

Her work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Discover, MedShadow.org, The Scientist, Vice, NEO.LIFE, TheAtlantic.com, NPR Shots, Kaiser Health News, The American Society of Hematology (ASH) Clinical News.

She was awarded the Association of Healthcare Journalists (AHCJ) CDC Fellowship for 2021. She also received a 2019 Communicator of Excellence award in writing and a 2021 Bronze Excel award, both for feature articles in ASH Clinical News.

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