Bio: Amy Maxmen is an award-winning science journalist who covers the entanglements of evolution, medicine, science policy and of the people behind research. Her stories appear in Wired, National Geographic and The New York Times, among other outlets. She’s currently a senior reporter at Nature. Amy’s feature on the origin of humanity in Ethiopia is anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015. For her coverage of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, she won a Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers and the Bricker Award for Science Writing in Medicine. Her 2018 feature on malaria in Southeast Asia won a first prize from the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), and her 2019 feature on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo won an award from AHCJ, as well as a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the communications award from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Prior to writing, Amy earned a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from Harvard.

Location: Oakland, California

Career: Science journalism

Website: http://www.amymaxmen.com