Gretchen Smail
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Gretchen Smail

Expertise

Asian health, health disparities, poverty

About

Gretchen Smail is a freelance health and science multimedia journalist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work focuses on health disparities, poverty, senior communities, and climate change. 

She also has over five years of experience as an arts and culture journalist, and she's written about projects from creators of color for sites like Bustle, Oprah Daily, Vulture, The Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, IGN, and Nerdist.

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English, University of California in Berkeley
  • Master of Arts (M.A.) in Journalism, CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, New York City

Awards

  • Asian American Journalists Association
  • NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists

Latest Work

Latest contributions from Gretchen Smail, in Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Stomach Cancer