Hi! I’m an award-winning health and science journalist living in Brooklyn.

I’m currently a reporter, editor and podcaster at Bloomberg News, where I have covered the rise of DIY gene-editing, the push to make magic mushrooms mainstream and a global pandemic, among other things. My 2021 podcast series on the rise of vaccine hesitancy in America, Doubt, won a silver Signal Award and was nominated for a Webby.

Before Bloomberg, I worked at Gizmodo, Fusion (RIP), the San Francisco Chronicle, the Albany Times Union and The Caravan (in New Delhi). I’ve got an MA in Arts and Culture Journalism from Columbia University.

I’m originally from a little place in California known as The OC, but think New York is the best city in the world. I share my teeny apartment with two cats and a bunch of fish.

Find me at kristen@kristenvbrown.com

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