Kelly Servick is a science journalist based in Philadelphia, PA. She has covered neuroscience, drug development, and biomedical research for Science Magazine, where she is now a deputy news editor overseeing coverage of public health and infectious disease. She was a 2022-23 MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow; her project was focused on audio storytelling and the history of American mental health policy. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Scientific American, KUSP radio and others.

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She is also a songwriter and musician, most recently with the D.C.-based experimental folk band Near Northeast.

 

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