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She is a science journalist– Her work has appeared in Science, Scientific American, Discover, The New York Times, and Eos, among others.

She hold a B.S. degree in astrophysics from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in astronomy from the University of California, Los Angeles. She used data from the Keck Telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope for her doctoral thesis on galaxy evolution and star formation.

She has previously worked with the University of California, Berkeley to develop a free smartphone application about solar physics that’s been downloaded over 300,000 times. She also used to work as a Program and Exhibit Developer at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.