Nadia Drake is a science journalist at Wired. Before that, she was an intern and then on staff at Science News, covering astronomy. She has completed internships at Nature, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Her work has also appeared online at Science and Scientific American, and in print at New Scientist, Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Santa Cruz Magazine. In 2012, she won the D.C. Science Writers Association's Newsbrief Award. Nadia is a 2011 graduate of the U.C. Santa Cruz Science Communication program, and earned her Ph.D. in genetics from Cornell University. She loves reporting from the field, and has traveled to such places as China, Alaska, the Channel Islands, and California's redwood forests in pursuit of stories.