McKenzie Prillaman is a reporter with The Cancer Letter. She joined the publication in 2024.
Before joining The Cancer Letter, McKenzie was a freelance science and health journalist writing for Nature, Science News, APS News and AARP, among other publications. She earned a master’s degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2022.
McKenzie previously worked at the Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and studied adolescent nicotine dependence at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and a minor in bioethics.
Before joining The Cancer Letter, McKenzie was a freelance science and health journalist writing for Nature, Science News, APS News and AARP, among other publications. She earned a master’s degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2022.
McKenzie previously worked at the Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and studied adolescent nicotine dependence at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and a minor in bioethics.