Erika is a senior reporter for the science journal Nature. Based in San Francisco, Erika currently covers biology, medicine, biotechnology, and Bay Area science, and has reported on many fields of science, including geology, space, and the environment.
Erika has been working as a journalist for more than a decade. She began her career at Stanford University, where she majored in biology and wrote for the school newspaper and alumni magazine. She then worked at Newsweek Magazine in New York, where she covered science, medicine and breaking news. After joining Nature's staff in 2001, Erika worked from Washington, D.C., for five years before moving to San Francisco in 2006.
Erika freelances for various publications, including Wired, Discover, and Popular Mechanics. She has taught in the master's program in science writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; at the Banff Science Communications program in Banff, Canada; and at the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop in New Mexico. She was also a fellow at the March 2009 Communications for Senior Scientists program at the Banff Centre and at the June 2009 Knight Digital Media Center's Multimedia and Convergence Workshop in Berkeley, California.
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