Liza Gross is an independent journalist based in Northern California, a reporter for the Food & Environment Reporting Network and author of The Science Writers’ Investigative Reporting Handbook. She specializes in conservation and ecology, environmental and public health, psychology and the intersection of science and society with an eye toward revealing power imbalances, and the misuse and abuse of science for private gain. Her work has appeared in Discover, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation and many other outlets.