Rachel Fritts is a science writer, editor, and fact-checker with a focus on conservation, wildlife biology, and the Earth sciences. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Science News, Science, Audubon Magaazine, Mongabay, Hakai Magazine, InsideClimate News, and MIT Technology Review. She is currently Associate Editor at HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, helping with the newly launched Wild Hope series about threatened species and ecosystems and the communities working to save them.  She previously wrote about birds and the people helping to conserve their habitats at American Bird Conservancy.

Rachel has a background in the biological and environmental sciences, and holds a master’s degree in science writing from MIT. She is a member of the D.C. Science Writer’s Association (DCSWA) and the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).

Rachel is currently based in Silver Spring, MD, where she lives with her husband and their polydactyl cat, Suki.