Issue 1 Writers & Contributors

Jennifer is a Chicago native who enjoys breaking down complex ideas into stories that are easy to understand. In her free time, she can be found cycling, jogging, and exploring the Windy City.

Find Jennifer on Twitter: @jennifercball

Amethyst Loscocco is a technical, science, and health writer. She’s covered a range of topics, from soil biology to public health to genetics. She lives in Oakland, California.

Find Amethyst on Twitter: @amethystwrites

Chelsea is a California native currently residing in Manhattan who writes and edits science pieces for both the academic and general audience. She is passionate about climate change, ocean science, bioethics, technology, and the future of human health.

Find Chelsea on Twitter: @chelseajnoack

Dr. Alison Jarman is an anesthesiologist, writer, and advocate for global access to safe surgery, based in Melbourne, Australia. Her interests in health equity and health care improvement through education have taken her to northern and central Australia, Mongolia, and Zambia. She believes good writing can transform health practice and her next article to be published is one for children on hypnosis and needle phobia. Her consuming passions include podcasts and cycling.

Find Alison on Twitter: @oxygen_and_soda

Kellie Schmitt is a Seattle-based health reporter and graduate student in the Johns Hopkins Science Writing program. A longtime reporter, she is a frequent contributor to USC’s Center for Health Journalism, where she completed a health journalism fellowship.

Find Kellie on Twitter: @schmitt_k

Orla Sheehan is a student in the final year of the Johns Hopkins M.A. in Science Writing Program. She is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Find Orla on Twitter: @osheehan

Jayne Williamson-Lee is a technology writer and graduate student in the Science Writing program at Johns Hopkins. Her work has appeared in Psychology Today, OneZero, Behind the Code, and others.

Find Jayne on Twitter: @jaynew_l

Kailey McMullen (Akron, Ohio) has a bachelor’s degree in biology. She currently works as a grant writer in Portage County, Ohio. She’s passionate about bringing maternal and child health issues to light.

Find Kailey on Twitter: @kailmcmullen

Haley is based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and normally covers science communications about the latest biomedical science research findings. She is currently a graduate student in the Johns Hopkins Master of Arts in Science Writing Program. In her spare time, you can find her reading fantasy novels and embroidering.

Find Haley on Twitter: @haley_wasserman

Eric Williamson is a career journalist and communications professional who, in addition to his emerging portfolio of science-related articles, writes about legal education. His writing and editing have won more than a dozen press association awards, including South Carolina’s Montgomery Freedom of Information Award, and several individual or shared honors from two other groups: the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). He lives with his growing family in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Find Eric on Twitter: @EricWillWrite

Scott D. Crawford is a social science entrepreneur by day, where he manages a small survey research business. By night he is often found practicing being a husband, father, forever-learner, survey methodologist, science writer, and podcast lover. While he doesn’t believe in reincarnation, he’s certain he was a Great Dane (of the canine type) in a previous life.

Find Scott on Twitter: @scottcraw

Ariel Hansen is a fifth-generation Pacific Northwesterner and a writer and editor since 2001. Winner of numerous Society of Professional Journalists awards, her focus is now on health and medicine. When not working with words at arielhansen.com, she raises her son, gets garden dirt under her fingernails, and experiments with recipes.

Find Ariel on Twitter: @WordsmithAriel

Lisa Turner is a former neuroscience graduate student who decided writing about science was preferable to doing experiments. She works in the business office of the chemistry department at Yale University and will be earning an M.A. in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University in December 2021.

Find Lisa on Twitter: @brainyeditor

Scott D. Crawford is a social science entrepreneur by day, where he manages a small survey research business. By night he is often found practicing being a husband, father, forever-learner, survey methodologist, science writer, and podcast lover. While he doesn’t believe in reincarnation, he’s certain he was a Great Dane (of the canine type) in a previous life.

Find Scott on Twitter: @scottcraw

Crystal Gwizdala is a freelance science journalist with a focus on health. She also works as the assistant editor at Catalyst Midland and ghostwrites for medical professionals. She has bylines in The Xylom, The Detroit Free Press, Route Bay City, Epicenter Mt. Pleasant, Midland Daily News, and Catalyst Midland. You can connect with her via LinkedIn or see her portfolio here.

Find Crystal on Twitter: @CrystalGwizdala

Kennedy Lamb is a Baltimore-based science writer and graduate student in the Johns Hopkins Science Writing Program. She currently works as a Strategy and Communications Associate for Kaiser Permanente, Mid-Atlantic States.

Find Kennedy on Twitter: @kennedy_lamb_2

Madison Tuttle is a Public Affairs Specialist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center supporting the agency’s deep space exploration program. She graduated from Iowa State University in 2018 with a degree in public relations and is now in her final year of the MA in Science Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.

Find Madison on Twitter: @madison_tuttle4

Abby is a recent biology graduate from the University of Missouri with an interest in ecological and evolutionary sciences. Looking for a life beyond the lab, she has forayed into the field of science communications. In her new state of Kentucky, she enjoys spending time with bourbon, her boyfriend, and their menagerie of rescue animals.

Find Abby on Twitter: @abby_flan

Morgan Howell is a medical technical writer from Richmond, Virginia. A graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, her passions include increasing health literacy, improving doctor-patient communication, and understanding the different cultural approaches and social determinants to health.

Find Morgan on Twitter: @mhowell819

Mary is a freelance science writer with a background in pediatric nursing. She currently resides in Columbus, Ohio with her husband, 8-month-old son, and golden retriever.

Find Mary on Twitter: @Mary_Pfeifer26

Kylia Ahuna was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, and is now located in Portland, Oregon. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience in 2019 at the University of Colorado Boulder where she studied the impact of strong social connections on mental health. Kylia is now pursuing her master’s degree in science writing at Johns Hopkins University and is also a researcher at Oregon Health and Sciences University studying the placenta to investigate how maternal health affects fetal health.

Find Kylia on Twitter: @KyliaAhuna

Kristen Hines is a medical writer and editor based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Lindsey Leake is the health, welfare and social justice reporter for TCPalm, the USA TODAY affiliate on Florida’s Treasure Coast. She has a B.A. from Princeton, an M.A. in Journalism and Digital Storytelling from American University, and is expected to graduate from Johns Hopkins with an M.A. in Science Writing in 2022. A Virginia native, she resides in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Find Lindsey on Twitter: @NewsyLindsey