About Me

I’m a freelance science journalist, editor, and fact-checker based out of Colorado. I’ve written for publications such as Undark, Scientific American, Popular Science, Nature Medicine, Science, Business Insider, Medscape, WebMD, one5c, Psychology Today, Audubon Magazine, Cancer Today, Live Science, and more. I write about health, medicine, parenting, child development, mental health, cancer, marijuana, LGBTQ+ health, and just about anything related to science or the environment. I also offer sensitivity reading services for content related to gender and sexuality.

From early 2022 to early 2024, I was the Health & Science Editor for Fatherly, where I wrote and edited stories on men’s health and wellness, fitness, parenting, and child development. From early 2020 to early 2022, I first interned and then worked as a Contributing Editor at Fatherly, specializing in covering the COVID-19 pandemic and writing for newsletters, including the Webby award-winning Homebodies newsletter.

I graduated from New York University in 2019 with a Master’s degree in Science, Health & Environmental Reporting. During my studies, I served as Associated Editor and Multimedia Editor for Scienceline. I also interned at Spectrum, Audubon Magazine and Psychology Today. Previously, I served as Editor-in-Chief of The Synapse, an intercollegiate science magazine based out of Oberlin College, which I graduated from with a B.A. in Biology.

I’m also a fiction writer, and I’m currently querying a YA Fantasy and a YA Contemporary Romance manuscript.

I recently changed my name, so you may find that some of my bylines are under Tara Santora.

Professional Affiliations: National Science Writers Association; Trans Journalists Association; Science Writers Association of the Rocky Mountains