Shawna Williams

I love learning about science and have made a career of combining this with another passion: crafting a good story. After earning a bachelor's degree in biochemistry, I studied science communication at UC Santa Cruz and then embarked on a series of internships before landing my first job.

I've worked in institutional communications at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant research and Johns Hopkins Medicine; as an instructor and journals editor at West China Medical School; and as a science journalist and editor at The Scientist magazine.

I currently freelance from Queens, New York.