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Hi, I’m Sarah! A scientist turned freelance journalist and artist.

As a journalist I specialize in reporting and producing narrative podcast stories and series. And my art practice is all about making interactive immersive art installations.
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2012-2017
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'13 / First day on the radio at my college radio station KSPC
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'12 / Presented research on eye tracking as a learning aid at ACM CHI as an undergrad (a milestone event for any HCI researcher)
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'13 / Graduated from Scripps College
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'13-'14 / Spent a season working at a dog sledding kennel
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'14 / Worked as a forest ranger at Mount Saint Helens
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'16 / Won ‘Portlandiest Project’ at Portland Science Hack Day 2016 for attempting to create an automated Vaux’s swift counter 
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'17 / Got several extra rounds of polio vaccine to spend time working at the CDC on technology to monitor polio in wastewater
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'17 / Developed a novel high throughput single cell sequencing method. The work was published in Nature Methods and a patent was granted for the method
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2018-2020
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'18 / Published my first reported feature about Portland’s crows and the city's laser-guided hawks
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'18 / Created a jungle of glowing balloon neurons as an Art-Science resident for Guerilla Science in NYC
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'19 / Joined the Sculpting Evolution group at the MIT Media Lab, conducting research focused on prototyping and fabricating electronics for use by wild rodents
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'19 / Went to my first DEFCON
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'19 / Received a Boston Awesome grant to create the Pipetting Zoo at the Cambridge Science Festival
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'20 / TA’d for and helped develop How To Grow Almost Anything Bootcamp
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'20 / Biohybrid squid skin proposal shortlisted for Ginkgo Bioworks Creative Residency
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'20 / Applied for a patent for devices for introducing organisms into populations
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'20 / Accidentally fell
in love with rallycross
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2021-2024
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'21 / My Scientific American story about the Miller-Urey experiment was the most popular story on the entire SciAm website for a week straight
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'21 / LAByrinth, an immersive show, shortlisted for the Denver Center for Performing Arts Off-Center Residency
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'21 / Selected for and participated in Odyssey Work’s Experience Design Incubator
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'22 / My Proof story about getting lobsters high won a Signal Award
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'23 / Helped develop and launch The Daily Rally and Mr. Ballen’s Medical Mysteries
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'23 / Orlando Bloom shared one of my stories on his instagram
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'23 / Competed in my first Rebelle Rally (a super badass 8-day 1500 mile off-road navigation rally)
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'24 / Was selected as an Audio Tune Up Mentee at RESONATE
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'18 / Created a jungle of glowing balloon neurons as an Art-Science resident for Guerilla Science in NYC
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'21 / Published my first feature length reported podcast episode about the food timeline
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'22 / My Proof story about getting lobsters high won a signal award
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'23 / Competed in the Rebelle Rally (a super badass 8-day 1500 mile off road navigation rally)
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'24 / Was selected as an Audio Tune Up Mentee at RESONATE
Timeline
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Journalism
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Art
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Science
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