digital products and interactives
the boston globe and boston.com
As the Globe Opinion section's Digital Editor and a member of the Editorial Board, I wrote editorials and reported opinion articles, as well as edited and produced all online-only content for the Opinion/Editorial and Ideas sections. Along with the rest of the Boston Globe newsroom staff, I was a contributor to reporting that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for Breaking News Reporting for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. I co-produced an interactive feature that accompanied the 2015 Pulitzer-winning editorial series “Service not Included.”
At Boston.com, I wore many hats as a digital product manager and content creator, all of them awesome.
BDCwire was the Globe's first WordPress site, and its first vertical. As a product manager with a vision, I led the small team that conceived it, named it, developed and designed it, marketed the launch, and hired the staff. Our documentation and designs led directly to the successful launch of two other successful Boston Globe sites.
Boston City Council Speed Dating: Choosing a candidate is a little bit like dating, especially in a crowded race. So to sort through Boston.Comment’s eight City Council At-Large candidates, we invited the contenders to woo us, via YouTube.
Choose Your Own Boston Mayor: Like any great adventure, Boston’s 2013 mayoral election had twists, turns, and many possible endings. In the spirit of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, the Boston.comment team created a 1980s nostalgia trip through the city and a chance to meet the candidates.
Service Not Included: This interactive accompanied a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial series that urged an increase in the minimum wage and other workplace improvements.
The #LabDebates and streaming live video: The year was 2013, and the digital team at Globe Opinion was one of the first to offer live streaming political content on a daily news site, including mayoral debates, election coverage, and current events. Live from the Globe Lab, it’s the Lab Debates!
the groundtruth project
The GroundTruth Project is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to supporting a new generation of journalists through narrative storytelling that enlightens and informs. I worked as GroundTruth's Digital Manager and oversaw the development and deployment of a multitude of large-scale projects: a site redesign and launch, the creation of a user-generated discussion platform called Voices, and the award-winning microsite, Foreverstan.com.
Bill of Health
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
I led digital communications for the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, a top interdisciplinary research program, where I was also a Research Associate. In addition to designing a new Wordpress site to house it, I was the editor in chief of the Center’s blog, Bill of Health.
Academics
I am available for consulting with academic teams that want to boost digital interaction with their research or need assistance translating their work for a general audience. I build websites, advise on digital strategy, translate jargon, and do graphic design for social media and the academic press.
Translation and dissemination is so important! I create accessible graphic representations of science and policy research, and help teams promote their work in digital spaces for the general public.
My weekly email newsletter, “Sex, Drugs, and Biotech” provides the latest analysis, reporting, and commentary for a general audience about assisted reproduction technologies, genome editing, the biopharma industry, and emerging issues in synthetic biology and biohacking. Subscribe now!
OutLawBio has two objectives: to disseminate research relevant to biohacking, community biology, DIY biology, and other biomedical science activities, and to promote conversation and collaboration among stakeholders in these spaces.