Jessica Colarossi is a science writer in Boston, MA. She’s a trained journalist with bylines at ThinkProgress, Spare Change News, Journalist's Resource, Futurity, and other institutional publications. She dedicated her early writing, while studying at Emerson College, to women entrepreneurs pioneering the legal marijuana scene in Massachusetts. She’s currently the only full-time science writer on staff at Boston University, where she regularly covers high level research in all areas of science, including climate, ecology, astronomy, health, and social sciences, for the university's central research magazine, The Brink. In 2019 she contributed reporting to an award winning story about a beached whale, which was recognized as a finalist for Article of the Year by CASE. In the summer of 2022, Jessica participated in the prestigious Bread Loaf Environmental Writer’s Conference at Middlebury College, in Ripton, VT. She’s working on numerous creative writing projects, and eagerly wants to write more about the ocean, microbiology, native plants, and our relationship to nature.