Nicholette Zeliadt manages The Transmitters’s staff reporters and interns, and she commissions and edits news articles. She joined The Transmitter as news writer in 2014. Before that, she was a freelance writer and editor. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature Medicine, Science and The Scientist.

Education

  • Ph.D. in environmental health, University of Minnesota
  • B.A. in biochemistry, University of Iowa

Fellowships

  • AAAS Mass Media Fellowship

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