Two decades of experience spanning science journalism, magazine feature writing, book publishing, newsletter ghostwriting, and business thought leadership. Whatever the format, my contribution is the same: sharp positioning, credible arguments, and salient framing.
My thought leadership, in brief: two decades inside science journalism, book publishing, and management consulting taught me what makes expertise legible and valuable. See examples of my own thought leadership frameworks below.
Two media businesses built from scratch (both now retired).
Shaping flagship thought leadership for McKinsey's Life Sciences practice — editing and ghostwriting for senior partners across pharma, biotech, medtech, and animal health, with excursions into geopolitics and risk. Selected published work:
As a freelance developmental editor, I take books from argument to structure to voice — cover to cover, alongside the author. Before that, as senior acquisitions editor at The MIT Press (2016–2023), I built the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics list — signing and shepherding 100+ titles by authors at MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and the national labs — and helped launch children's publishing with MIT Kids Press, the Press's imprint with Candlewick.
A selection — the full list runs to more than a hundred titles across physics, engineering, math, and computing.
Nine years as associate editor and books column editor at Physics Today, the flagship magazine of the American Institute of Physics — 140+ bylined articles on STEM education, industrial R&D, healthcare, and international science. Founded and edited Bookends, the magazine's first books blog, home to Q&As with prominent physicists including future Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger. Selected features:
Full bibliography on Google Scholar.
Before editing science, I did science — seven years in chemical engineering and biophysics labs, from silica-particle synthesis and nanofiltration membranes to the thermodynamics of actin polymerization.
On publishing, authorship, and getting science into the hands of people who need it.