{"id":2,"date":"2007-07-12T23:12:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T23:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/itrunsthings\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-02-06T05:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:21:22","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Pleased to meet you. Here is a little bit about myself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a science journalist with many extracurricular interests. I&#8217;ve reported on how cities work, how agriculture works, how our bodies work. Much of my writing intersects with climate change and what we&#8217;re going to do about it, which is the biggest story of our time, whether we would like it to be or not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big believer in solutions journalism, as well a believer that environmental journalists need to investigate solutions just as fiercely as we do problems. As time goes on, I see that the work that I do is all different aspects of the same story. There&#8217;s how we like to think things get done, and then there&#8217;s how they actually get done. In that distance lies the story.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve studied at UC Berkeley\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism, been a Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism, co-edited a magazine called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meatpaper.com\"><em> Meatpaper<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>and worked as a writer and researcher for a book of maps called <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/jan\/23\/entertainment\/la-ca-rebecca-solnit-20110123\"><em>Infinite City <\/em><\/a>(and later <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book\/9780520285958\/nonstop-metropolis\">Nonstop Metropolis<\/a>,<\/em> which is the first and only time that a essay that I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queensmuseum.org\/2016\/03\/thats-what-she-said\">became a mural at the Queens Museum<\/a>).\u00a0 I\u00a0was a\u00a0Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and then a staff writer at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/author\/heather-smith\/\">Grist<\/a><\/em> and also an editor at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/contentdev.sierraclub.org\/www\/sierra\/authors\/heather-smith\">Sierra Magazine<\/a><\/em>, where I led a redesign of the science section. Right now, I&#8217;m working as an editor and researcher, working on a book and writing for a few places, most notably <em><a href=\"https:\/\/baynature.org\/author\/h-r-smith\/\">Bay Nature<\/a>. <\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to get in touch: hello [at] strangerworks.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Pleased to meet you. Here is a little bit about myself. I&#8217;m a science journalist with many extracurricular interests. I&#8217;ve reported on how cities work, how agriculture works, how our bodies work. Much of my writing intersects with climate change and what we&#8217;re going to do about it, which is the biggest story of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}