Ashley Yeager is a staff writer at the Simons Foundation and also a freelance writer and editor. She has also worked at Science News, Duke University and at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Ashley has an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee and a master’s in science writing from MIT. She is currently co-chair of the education committee for the National Association of Science Writers and teaches an online science writing course for high school students through MIT's Office of Engineering Outreach Programs.