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Anna is a Maine-based storyteller focused on science, outdoors, adventure, and travel. She applies journalistic principles to observe connections between people and places, boil down research, and find the story. Now a journalist for 20 years, her writing has appeared in the travel and environment sections of National Geographic, AFAR, Outside, Smithsonian Magazine, BBC, Boston Globe, Maine Magazine, and other outlets. It earned her a North American Travel Journalists Association award for her National Geographic story on how oyster farming is helping the planet, and a Solas Award for Best Travel Writing for her Outside feature on a man's quest to save a storm-battered lighthouse. Early on in her career, she won a National Newspaper Association Foundation Better Newspaper Contest Social Issues Feature award for her series on homelessness. Anna also writes and edits articles and academic reports on rare and infectious diseases, cancer, genetics and genomics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, climate change, global health, and innovation for leading research institutes including Harvard University, the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Partners In Health, Dartmouth College, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Northeastern University.