In the News
You can find my writing at my blog and in video form on my TikTok. For other samples of my writing or articles that I have been featured in, check out the links below.
Janes Urton (UW Today) - January 3, 2025
Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except hydrogen and helium — including carbon, oxygen and iron — only exist because they were forged in stellar furnaces and later flung into the cosmos when their stars died. In an ultimate act of galactic recycling, planets like ours are formed by incorporating these star-built atoms into their makeup, be it the iron in Earth’s core, the oxygen in its atmosphere or the carbon in the bodies of Earthlings.
Anyone Can Make a Difference
May 20, 2026
Becoming involved in policy and governmental affairs is not something I would have thought I’d mark off my "things I became passionate about in my 20s" bingo card, but it has been a welcome interest in my life for the past few years. I started gaining momentum on the policy train ever since the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Presidential Budget Request was released and I started actively seeking ways to advocate for astronomy. However, my full-steam-ahead moment was when I was selected to participate in the American Astronomical Society 2026 Congressional Visits Day. It was during this jam-packed workshop that I learned that we all have the ability to make a difference on the issues we find important.
Aristos Georgiou (Newsweek) - January 6, 2025
The carbon that is a key component of the human body—and all other lifeforms on Earth—may have traveled outside the galaxy after being created before returning on a cosmic "conveyor belt," an author of a new study has suggested.