Anna...

is a science writer based in Northern California. Through June 2025, she is pursuing her M.S. in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

For the past decade, she worked as a newspaper reporter, fact checker, editor and communications specialist. She is a longtime contributor to Civil Eats, a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. Between 2017 and 2021, she was a staff reporter and editor for the Point Reyes Light, the Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering the Point Reyes National Seashore and the unincorporated villages of coastal Marin County. She earned her B.A. in English and environmental studies from Wesleyan University in 2014.

She won numerous awards to support her graduate studies. She is a California Coastal Climate Resilience Fellow (sponsored by U.C. Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience and California Ocean Science Trust), a Taylor/Blakeslee Graduate Fellow (Council for the Advancement of Science Writing), an ARCS Scholar (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation), and a Bodie McDowell Scholar (Outdoor Writers Association of America).   

Note: David Briggs, Point Reyes Light publisher, took the vast majority of the photographs on this site. Thank you, David!