Czerne Reid
Science Writer, Gainesville, Florida
Czerne Reid is is a science writer in Gainesville, Fla.; a science writing teacher at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and co-chair of the education committee of the National Association of Science Writers. She has worked at University of Florida Health Communications; The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C.; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; The Salinas Californian, in John Steinbeck's hometown; Stanford News Service and Stanford School of Medicine Office of Communication and Public Affairs. A 2007 Kaiser Media Fellow, her fellowship project was an award-winning newspaper series on the impact of HIV/AIDS in South Carolina. Czerne earned her PhD in environmental chemistry at Emory University, and a graduate certificate in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her bachelor's degree in chemistry is from the University of the West Indies, Mona, in her native Jamaica.