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I'm a writer and editor in Tacoma, Washington. Before that, Los Angeles; before that, Mexico City. My book, "Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between" was published March, 2020.
This website is a portfolio of recent copywriting, branded content, and other commercial editorial projects.
New advances can change the Alzheimer's diagnostic journey.
How Americans are curating their drinking and coming together to redefine moderation.
From immediate mammogram results to a richer understanding of the human genome, AI is reshaping the future of health care.
On most weekday mornings, Mike Ramirez drives to the Hope Credit Union location on the frontage road off Interstate 30 in Southwest Little Rock. In the same parking lot there's a Mexican restaurant named El Chico with a big sign that you can see from the highway.
How we produce, consume, and dispose of things is depleting natural resources and harming the planet. But what if we treated waste as a viable resource? Every fall, rice farmers in California's Sacramento River Valley face the same problem: Following the harvest, they are left with tons of rice straw, a natural by-product that requires disposal.
A few years ago, when I was working as a new physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, I joined a Meetup group focused on design and tech in the healthcare space. The group included representatives from all kinds of startups and healthcare entities with big, paradigm-shifting ideas.
In two years, Moderna has evolved from a small biotech in Cambridge, Massachusetts to a company widely recognized on the world stage for developing and manufacturing a highly effective COVID-19 vaccine.
As recently as 2017, Santa Monica, California-the iconic, wealthy beach community west of Los Angeles-was almost totally analog in its government operations. It was a city of contrasts. There was free Wi-Fi for tourists in public spaces, but municipal employees worked from ancient hardwired desktops and uploaded their files to on-site servers.