We’re sorry to report that Brooke Borel learned on Friday of an unavoidable situation that will make it impossible for her to travel to Santa Fe for the workshop. We scrambled over the weekend to find someone of the highest calibre to take Brooke’s place. Through a great stroke of fortune we were able to recruit Christie Aschwanden, freelancer extraordinaire and one of our favorite science writers and people.

We will all miss Brooke and we apologize for the last minute change, but we’re confident that you will be happy with the result.

Christie was a student at our first workshop way back in 1996. Right afterward she completed the prestigious science journalism program at UC-Santa Cruz and has gone on to an extraordinarily successful career as a freelance science writer. She also served until last month as lead science writer for FiveThirtyEight. Christie was already scheduled to give a talk later in the workshop and to join in our book reading on Wednesday evening. She has graciously reworked her schedule to take Brooke’s place. You can read more about her at https://christieaschwanden.com.

We’ll be rejiggering the schedule a bit, so please stay tuned.

We’re also announcing an addition to the program. On Friday, May 10 we will be joined by Sara Solovitch and April Reese from New Mexico Searchlight to talk about nonprofit, independent journalism.