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Rene Ebersole is an independent journalist specializing in narrative articles and investigative pieces about science, the environment, and health. She contributes to many national outlets, including National Geographic, The Washington Post, Outside, The Marshall Project, Popular Science, The Nation, and Audubon, where she was an editor for more than a decade. She lives in New York’s scenic Hudson Valley. In her journalistic pursuits she has traveled to such far-flung places as the heart of Australia’s Outback, the most remote forest on earth in Africa’s Republic of Congo, Japan’s hot springs inhabited by snow monkeys, Mexico City’s famous witchcraft market, and Israel’s scenic Hula Valley. As the former staff Features Editor at Audubon, she oversaw scores of articles on a wide range of topics, from deeply reported investigative environmental pieces, engaging profiles, and stories about conservation and science to articles on travel, photography, and food. Her first book, “Gorilla Mountain,” a children’s biography of gorilla biologist Amy Vedder was co-published by Joseph Henry Press and Scholastic. Often working at the intersection of science and crime, she is a 2021-2022 MIT Knight science journalism fellow, focusing on the legacy of junk science in the criminal justice system for a new book project. She has worked as a professor at New York University’s distinguished Masters program in Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting, from which she is a graduate, and guest lectures at other universities.