Spectrum: Autism Research News
Team
Meet the Spectrum Team
Staff

Ivan Oransky
Ivan Oransky joined Spectrum in 2020, having previously served in editorial leadership roles at outlets including Medscape, Reuters Health and Scientific American.
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Kristin Ozelli
Kristin Ozelli oversees Spectrum’s day-to-day operations, manages the news team and oversees the production of articles and multimedia content.
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Nicholette Zeliadt
Nicholette Zeliadt manages Spectrum‘s staff writers and interns, and she commissions and edits news and opinion articles.
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Nektaria Pastellas
Nektaria Pastellas leads Spectrum’s strategic efforts to engage autism researchers and clinicians with Spectrum‘s award-winning content, across all marketing channels.
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Emily Singer
Emily Singer commissions and edits scientist-written content and develops new resources for the community.
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Brady Huggett
Brady Huggett is the enterprise editor at Spectrum, where he writes and edits features and long-form projects.
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Rebecca Horne
Rebecca oversees and directs Spectrum‘s multimedia operations and commissions illustrations, photography, videos and other multimedia content.

Hope Vanderberg
Hope Vanderberg edits articles on Spectrum for grammar and accuracy.
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Shaena Montanari
Shaena Montanari joined Spectrum as an enterprise reporter in January 2023. She was previously an investigative health reporter at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting in Phoenix.
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Angie Voyles Askham
Angie Voyles Askham is a reporter for Spectrum, where she covers neural circuits and gene therapy, among other topics. She proposed and writes Spectrum Launch, a monthly newsletter for early-career researchers.
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Sam Schuman
Sam Schuman is Spectrum’s associate web producer, working on the publication’s website and newsletters.
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Jasmine Peralta
Jasmine is the marketing associate for Spectrum, where she works toward deepening and developing engagement among our audience.
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Emmet Fraizer
Emmet Fraizer is Spectrum‘s editorial assistant, providing administrative support to the editorial team.
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Contributors
Contributing writers:
Advisory Board

Deborah Blum
Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, is director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and publisher of its award-winning science magazine, Undark.
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David Gresham
David Gresham is professor of biology and vice dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. His lab focuses on genome evolution and plasticity, post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and control of cell growth.
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Laura Helmuth
Laura Helmuth is editor-in-chief at Scientific American and vice president of the National Association of Science Writers.
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Rebecca Jones
Rebecca Jones is a senior clinical research scientist at Imagen Technologies and clinical assistant professor of neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.
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Robin Marantz Henig
Robin Marantz Henig is a science journalist and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, and is president of the National Association of Science Writers.
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Temitayo Oyegbile-Chidi
Temitayo Oyegbile-Chidi is associate professor of neurology at the University of California, Davis.
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Jason Penchoff
Jason Penchoff is senior director of marketing and communications at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City, where he focuses on content strategy and physician engagement.
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