I am a science writer and recovering cultural psychologist with an occasional triathlon habit.

By day, I work as the head curator of The Tech Museum, the spellbinding hands-on science and technology center in San Jose, Calif., where my job is to kindle love affairs with science.

By night, I write about culture, psychology, and health for a variety of venues, which have included The New York Times Magazine, Static, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review, where I served as senior editor for five years. You can read my latest nocturnal scribblings on my blog, Actual Miles. You can also cheer me on as I coauthor (with Hazel Rose Markus) a popular book about how cultures make people and people make cultures.

Between writing gigs, I picked up a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Yale, a doctorate in cultural psychology from Stanford, and a postdoctoral certificate in health psychology from the University of California, San Francisco. I also read Dostoevsky in Russia, crooned with the Yale Slavic Chorus in Bulgaria, studied football fans in Japan, plumbed the psyches of Wal-Mart shoppers in Arkansas, and pedaled across Tanzania.

Now that I’ve settled down a bit, I mostly just walk the cat and answer email at this address:

lastname.firstname@gmail.com.