She has a master’s degree from Columbia University in science, environment and medicine journalism. Her writing has appeared in Mosaic, STAT, Undark, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Kenyon Review, the Atlantic, Vice and more. Her work has won Best Feature from the Asian American Association of Journalists, the Next Generation of Science Journalists Award, and has been short-listed for the Association of British Science Writer's Best Feature. She has attended fellowships at the Mayo Clinic, the Broad Institute, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting.