Christie Taylor (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based science journalist, with nearly seven years as a radio producer and interview host for WNYC Studios’ Science Friday, and more than ten years total experience producing well-researched live talk shows. A versatile and dedicated multimedia journalist, she is as comfortable booking guests, editing interview tape and moderating panels of experts as she is researching and reporting science news and feature stories.

Her first act of science communication was a crayon-illustrated poster about baleen whales in kindergarten. Since then she has helped explain as much as she possibly can: Alzheimer’s Disease research, black hole evolution, the wonder and terror of polychaete marine worms, the connections between science fiction and contemporary disaster science, and how Indigenous peoples’ stories about constellations are in the same family of knowledge as a scientific hypothesis.

She has additional experience covering state politics, film and literature, and public education. Before Science Friday, she worked at Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked her way from intern to talk show producer. Her other experience includes an electronic medical records company, daily newspapers in both Baraboo, Wisconsin and Cape Town, South Africa and a University of Wisconsin-Madison research communications office.

Her freelance work has appeared in Wisconsin People & Ideas, Poets & Writers, Dane101, Isthmus, and the Peabody Award-winning radio program To the Best of Our Knowledge. A poet and sometimes essayist, her work has also appeared in several print and online journals.

She has degrees in journalism and sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ask her about roller derby, bike camping, power lifting, and knitting.