Monya Baker

Based in San Francisco, Monya Baker reports and commissions stories about improving the state of scientific research. After working as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow for ABC News, Monya fled broadcast journalism for a high school classroom, where she taught biology, chemistry and math before venturing into print journalism at the Acumen Journal of Life Sciences. She has written for The Economist, New Scientist, The Scientist, Wired and other publications. Monya has a B.A. in biology from Carleton College and an Ed.M. from Harvard University.