Awards (Selected)
National Society of Newspaper Columnists Annual Contest, Lifestyles, 3rd Place 2025
National Press Foundation Widening the Pipeline Fellow 2025
Livingston Award, Excellence in National Reporting, Finalist 2024
Gwen Ifill Fellow, Aspen Ideas Festival: Health 2024
National Headliner Award, Special or Feature Column, 3rd Place 2024
National Institute for Health Care Management Awards,
Investigative and General Reporting, Finalist 2024
Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism,
Inaugural Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Grantee 2023
Society for Features Journalism Excellence-in-Features Award,
Consumer/Service Features, 1st Place 2023
Online Journalism Awards, Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Finalist 2023
National Headliner Award, Special or Feature Column, 3rd Place 2023
Excellence in Craft Award Winner,
Outdoor Writers Association of America, 2nd Place Newspaper 2023
Dateline Award for Excellence in Local Journalism,
Magazine, Non-Breaking News, Finalist 2022
Excellence in Craft Award Winner,
Outdoor Writers Association of America, 3rd Place Newspaper 2022
SciShortform Best Shortform Science Writing,
“Top Pick” Short Short (<600 words) 2021
Other Honors
My story on how the immune system may cause psychiatric illness was listed in Longread’s Best of 2023: The Audience Awards and in the top 10 of Chartbeat’s Most Engaging Stories of 2023. It was also The Washington Post’s most shared, most gifted, and 4th most-read story of 2023.
Falling Walls Foundation Berlin Science Week Research 2021
ProPublica/Online News Association Diversity Mentorship Program 2021
Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship for Online News Association conference 2021
Phillip L. Graham Diversity Fund Fellowship,
Investigative Reporters & Editors conference 2021
Solutions Journalism Network mentorship program, Winona LaDuke 2021
AAAS Mass Media Fellowship Finalist 2020
International Neuroethics Society Student/Postdoc Essay Contest Finalist 2018
RehabMart Scholarship Winner, one of eight selected from >1,400 submissions 2018
Graduate Student Association’s Student Group Leader of the Year 2018
Baltimore Science Slam Winner,
“Most Creative Talk” by audience vote for talk on research 2016