The Truth about Flint, Michigan: A Clean Water Crisis | SciShow

This video tells the story of how failures of chemistry led to the public health crisis of Flint, MI. All research and writing were done by me, and it’s the script I’m most proud to have written during my time at SciShow! I love interdisciplinary scicomm work, and I’m glad I could explore some social impacts of science-based systems (and failures thereof).

SciShow Tangents | Complexly Podcast

This biweekly podcast is a lightly competitive knowledge showcase cocreated and cohosted by Hank Green, Sam Schultz, and me! We make a video version, too. I research and host multiple segments per episode, including answering community questions. It’s so much freaking fun.

Organic Chemistry | Crash Course

This 50-episode series covers two semesters of Organic Chemistry at a college level, which are notoriously difficult courses. I wish these videos existed when I was in undergrad! I project managed the content team (including several writers, a consultant, and a fact-checker), set up experiments, and edited all scripts to make them clear and memorable.

COVID-19 and Public Health | Crash Course A message from our team to students and teachers, with snippets of history and evidence-based science about the pandemic. What started as a basic pitch to explore a new partnership became a video full of empathy and heart.

What If We Killed All the Mosquitoes? | SciShow This is the first script I wrote for SciShow, and I think it holds up! I used the question of eradicating mosquitos to frame a story about Zika research (and preventing mosquito reproduction using bacterial infections) in 2016.

Aliens | Crash Course Film Criticism A critical analysis of the film Aliens, looking at its place in sci-fi and horror history, through a feminist lens, and as a war film.

Looking for more? Here’s a playlist of the 43 videos I’ve written for Complexly.

SciShow Tangents | Complexly I cohost this lightly competitive knowledge showcase with Hank Green and Sam Schultz, and it’s a really fun sciencey time! Some of my favorite recent episodes include Growth, Computers, Gas, and Snakes — but you can start with whatever topic sounds most interesting to you! As of May 2022, we also post every episode on YouTube as a video podcast.

How Chernobyl Hid A History Lesson Behind An Unfortunate Cow | Complexly A pilot video for a series called History Pop, about the HBO series Chernobyl and its scientific and historical accuracy. Voiceover only!

SciShow Quiz Show | SciShow I hosted various on-camera segments of a trivia game show, including asking the questions, playing as a contestant, and delivering answer explanations.

Looking for more? Here’s a list of all the podcasts I’ve been a guest on.

SciShow, SciShow Psych, SciShow Space I’ve edited hundreds of videos for SciShow channels between 2016 and 2018, and I’m credited as “Script Editor” in the pieces I worked on. Here are a few highlights, covering a range of science topics:

• How Cryptocurrencies Actually Work: Bitcoin Explained | SciShow

• The Psychology of Trolling | SciShow

• The 7 Most Toxic Places in the US (Do Not Go Here!) | SciShow

• CRISPR: A Gene-Editing Superpower | SciShow

• The Kugelblitz: A Black Hole Made From Light | SciShow Space

• Occupational Burnout: When Work Becomes Overwhelming | SciShow Psych

Crash Course I was the editor for seven Crash Course series: Organic Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, Film History, Film Production, Film Criticism, Business Soft Skills, and Entrepreneurship. As Editorial Director of the channel, I helped develop and top edit various scripts in other series produced between 2018 and 2021, from Black American History to Zoology. I also helped secure an NSF grant to create a culturally responsive adaptation of Crash Course Fundamentos de Química.

Study Hall As the Editorial Director of Crash Course, I helped create a partnership between Arizona State University, Crash Course, and YouTube. My team piloted four foundational courses (Composition, Algebra, Data Literacy, and Chemistry) that eventually became part of a new path to earning college credits through ASU. Since 2021, I’ve edited scripts for Fast Guides, which are honest videos about different majors, as well as college-level foundational courses, including Code and Programming for Beginners, US History to 1865, and Psychology.

Monstress | Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda I’m the editorial assistant for this Eisner and Hugo award-winning comic series, which means I help maintain a comprehensive story bible, compile backmatter material, and review completed issue proofs for errors.

Lauren Gawne, Gretchen McCulloch, Nicole Sweeney, Rachel Alatalo, Hannah Bodenhausen, Ceri Riley & Jessi Grieser. 2024. Creating Inclusive Linguistics Communication: Crash Course Linguistics. In Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz (Eds), Inclusion in Linguistics, 383-396. Oxford University Press. [Open Access]

Walter J Koroshetz, Shannon Behrman, Cynthia J Brame, Janet L Branchaw, Emery N Brown, Erin A Clark, David Dockterman, Jordan J Elm, Pamela L Gay, Katelyn M Green, Sherry Hsi, Michael G Kaplitt, Benedict J Kolber, Alex L Kolodkin, Diane Lipscombe, Malcolm R MacLeod, Caleb C McKinney, Marcus R Munafò, Barbara Oakley, Jeffrey T Olimpo, Nathalie Percie du Sert, Indira M Raman, Ceri Riley, Amy L Shelton, Stephen Miles Uzzo, Devon C Crawford, Shai D Silberberg (2020). Research Culture: Framework for advancing rigorous research. eLife 9:e55915. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55915

Sera Thornton, Ceri Riley, and Mary Ellen Wiltrout. 2017. Criteria for Video Engagement in a Biology MOOC. In Proceedings of the Fourth (2017) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 291–294. https://doi.org/10.1145/3051457.3054007

MIT+K12 Videos As a Multimedia Fellow, I worked on series like Ingredients, #askMIT, and Science Out Loud in various capacities, from animator to production assistant. I also wrote and hosted Why Can We Regrow A Liver (But Not A Limb)?, and I was a teaching assistant for an MIT class about writing and hosting educational video.

MITx Biology During my undergrad, I researched online learning and created animated videos for the free-to-audit 7.28x (Molecular Biology) massive open online courses (MOOCs).

MIT Admissions From 2013 to 2016, I blogged (and vlogged) for the MIT Admissions office, to give applicants a window into the lives of current MIT students across campus. As of 2022, I’ve returned as a staff blogger and admissions officer!