I'm Lena, a science journalist and designer.
Right now I'm a news apps fellow at ProPublica. Before that I was at Scientific American, where I wrote about neuroscience and the odd quirks of the human mind. Even before that I was at Wired, where I reported on technology and the Defense Department's latest sci-fi projects. I make posters, blog occasionally, and like running (a lot).
A timeline of the (minimal) government oversight of livestock antibiotics. Constantly feeding animals antibiotics can lead to drug resistant "super bugs" and threaten human health.
A look at all the typical, toxic, and just plain weird stuff that goes into the fracking fluid that drillers use to extract natural gas from rock.
A collection of all the arrests and resignations in the expanding News Corp scandal, in rings of proximity to Rupert Murdoch himself.
Posters for science storytelling performances organized by the Story Collider, a online and onstage project in NYC.
A timeline of the evolving government approach to natural gas drilling, or fracking. (Fun fact: it started with nuclear explosions.)
A series of interactive infographics on the costs of a decade of conflict since 9/11.
A visualization of data from the OECD on how people's priorities about "the good life" differ depending on where they live.
A visualization of various sources of radiation (from a chest xray to a nuclear accident) to give context to the levels released during the Fukushima disaster.

A series of public health posters for the Brown student body and Providence community on all kinds of topics: nutrition and fitness, drug and alcohol abuse, mental health and campus safety (to name a few).
