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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.




2012-2017



'13 / First day on the radio at my college radio station KSPC

'12 / Presented research on eye tracking as a learning aid at ACM CHI as an undergrad (a milestone event for any HCI researcher)

'13 / Graduated from Scripps College

'13-'14 / Spent a season working at a dog sledding kennel

'14 / Worked as a forest ranger at Mount Saint Helens

'16 / Won ‘Portlandiest Project’ at Portland Science Hack Day 2016 for attempting to create an automated Vaux’s swift counter


'17 / Got several extra rounds of polio vaccine to spend time working at the CDC on technology to monitor polio in wastewater

'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

2018-2020




'18 / Published my first reported feature about Portland’s crows and the city's laser-guided hawks

'18 / Created a jungle of glowing balloon neurons as an Art-Science resident for Guerilla Science in NYC

'19 / Joined the Sculpting Evolution group at the MIT Media Lab, conducting research focused on prototyping and fabricating electronics for use by wild rodents

'19 / Went to my first DEFCON

'19 / Received a Boston Awesome grant to create the Pipetting Zoo at the Cambridge Science Festival

'20 / TA’d for and helped develop How To Grow Almost Anything Bootcamp

'20 / Biohybrid squid skin proposal shortlisted for Ginkgo Bioworks Creative Residency

'20 / Applied for a patent for devices for introducing organisms into populations

'20 / Accidentally fell
in love with rallycross


2021-2024

'21 / My Scientific American story about the Miller-Urey experiment was the most popular story on the entire SciAm website for a week straight

'21 / LAByrinth, an immersive show, shortlisted for the Denver Center for Performing Arts Off-Center Residency

'21 / Selected for and participated in Odyssey Work’s Experience Design Incubator



'22 / My Proof story about getting lobsters high won a Signal Award

'23 / Helped develop and launch The Daily Rally and Mr. Ballen’s Medical Mysteries

'23 / Orlando Bloom shared one of my stories on his instagram


'23 / Competed in my first Rebelle Rally (a super badass 8-day 1500 mile off-road navigation rally)

'24 / Was selected as an Audio Tune Up Mentee at RESONATE


'18 / Created a jungle of glowing balloon neurons as an Art-Science resident for Guerilla Science in NYC

'21 / Published my first feature length reported podcast episode about the food timeline

'22 / My Proof story about getting lobsters high won a signal award

'23 / Competed in the Rebelle Rally (a super badass 8-day 1500 mile off road navigation rally)

'24 / Was selected as an Audio Tune Up Mentee at RESONATE
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