Kate Fink

Kate hails from the green mountains of Vermont where her summer job as a teenager involved driving a tractor and making cheese. Her current habitation in the temperate southern warmth of Boston feels mild in comparison, though she often visits her homeland in the north for the deeper snow and maple syrup. Kate graduated from college with a degree in biochemistry. Despite her love of cellular signal transduction pathways, she couldn't face the prospect of pipetting away her youth in a laboratory. She recently completed a master's degree in science journalism at Boston University and has written for Science NextWave and Harvard Focus. As a freelance science writer, Kate also dabbles in photography, chocolate quality control testing (a field which very often requires repeat sampling), and cow wrangling.