Hi! I'm Margaret, a freelance journalist with experience in audio, magazine, newspaper and digital journalism. I work as a writer, reporter, editor, copy editor and fact-checker. I am also the operations assistant and head of books for Factual, a new fact-checking agency. 

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I have written for publications including Smithsonian magazine, Live Science, The Scientist, Sag Harbor Express and Express Magazine. My work has aired on WSHU Public Radio, Long Island's local NPR-affiliate station and I've freelanced for Yale Medicine, Woodwell Climate, Cold Spring Harbor Lab and the American Physical Society. I also produced a few seasons of the Writers' Co-op, a podcast for freelance creatives.

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As a student at Stony Brook University, I voiced, wrote and produced (in collaboration with classmates) part four of the national Edward R. Murrow Award-winning series "Slavery on Long Island: The History That We Forget To Remember." 

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I was the science editor at The Stony Brook Press, the university's culture magazine, where I helped manage a team of 20 editors and recruited new writers. I graduated from Stony Brook University in the spring of 2020 with a double major in journalism and German language and literature and a minor in environmental studies. 

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I have spent about a year and a half living and studying in Berlin. I spent a semester at the Freie Universität, where I was in the FU-BEST+ program and took courses in German. I also studied abroad in Costa Rica, where I took environmental studies classes, taught English and learned basic Spanish language skills.  

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When I'm not working, you can find me hiking, boating, traveling and making pottery at the local ceramics studio! 

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Professional organizations: National Association of Science Writers, The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists