Erika is a San Francisco-based reporter for the science journal
Nature
, where she
covers biomedicine and California science. She also blogs at
The Last Word on Nothing
.
Erika has been working as a journalist for more than a decade. She began her career at
Newsweek
magazine
in New York and joined
Nature's
staff in 2001. Erika teaches in the University of California Santa Cruz
Science Communication program
.
She has also 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.
Biography:
ERIKA CHECK HAYDEN