helen fields

* I report and write about science. My main expertise is in health, medicine, and biology, but I can write about anything. * Write news and feature stories for outlets such as Smithsonian, Science, New Scientist, The Open Notebook, Science News for Students * Write press releases and feature articles for organizations such as Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Association for Psychological Science, Personalized Medicine Coalition * Contributor to The Science Writers' Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age, published April 2013 by Da Capo; also write and edit blog posts for the book website, pitchpublishprosper.com * Contributor to group science blog The Last Word on Nothing * Lectures on how to interview scientists and how to get good quotes

Worked with an early-career science writer on his feature stories for The Open Notebook and provided general career mentorship.

* Help steer performing arts organization with full-time staff and year-round performing schedule. * Volunteer duties include: * edit program for Christmas Revels * write and edit blog * edit communications to volunteers

* Wrote short pieces for the magazine's "Departments" section on topics including: a telemetric egg that records how the bird mom is taking care of it; a 2,000-year-old seed that sprouted; how alligators move by shifting their lungs * Edited short pieces for Departments * Collaborated with people from NG Books, NG Channel, other divisions to write short pieces about new products for the back of the magazine * Interviewed photographers and writers of feature stories for behind-the-scenes items for the back of the magazine * Collaborated with photo editors, graphics team, and page designers * Wrote for (and named) Pop Omnivore blog about the intersection of pop culture and science/geography

* Wrote news and features for weekly magazine about everything from proposed FDA rules on sunscreen to biblical archaeology * Edited encyclopedic consumer-oriented health content for web, created with hospital partners and written by hospital staff and freelance writers * Wrote briefs on medical research articles for website * Read interns' resumes and did first round of interviews

Wrote stories for the website.

Wrote press releases on research at the medical school and events at the hospital.

Followed experienced reporters around; reported, wrote, and voiced two stories, one of which aired.

Wrote stories for the paper about local topics with sciencey elements.