Writer & Editor
I'm an award-winning writer and editor who crafts editorial with heart. I specialize in storytelling about health and wellbeing. I'm skilled at tackling sensitive topics and translating complex scientific concepts for a broad audience. I’m a creative-meets-strategist type, so I love the challenge of adapting storytelling to reach new audiences across audio, newsletters, video and other emerging platforms. I thrive in collaborative, purpose-driven environments.
I run an editorial consulting business, Kairos Studio, where I work with organizations, authors, and brands to hone their science and health storytelling. Before that, I was a Senior Editor at the award-winning podcast company, Pushkin Industries, where I spearheaded client projects for Apple and Johns Hopkins University, and an editorial producer at the audio storytelling startup Gimlet Media/Spotify and National Public Radio. I also write a newsletter celebrating the senses called “Making Sense.” I interview artists and thinkers about their relationship to the senses, and make them a bouquet based on our conversation.
Health & Wellbeing Highlights:
Lead reporting and producing for the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center and Public Radio International’s forthcoming hour-long radio special about the science of love, with host Geena Davis (out February 2025).
I developed and launched “Come As You Are,” audio storytelling about the science of sexual wellbeing with host and bestselling author Dr. Emily Nagoski. The project exceeded monthly download projections by 181 percent and debuted in the Top 10 of Apple podcasts’ “Society and Culture” shows. It also won Best Wellness Podcast at the Ambie Awards.
I launched and managed the internal editorial production plan for Apple’s “Time to Walk,” the company’s first storytelling project exclusive to Fitness+ on the Apple Watch. The show, which explores wellbeing and mental health, reaches more than 100 million Apple Watch users. It won a Webby Award for its work in health, science and education.
I shaped the story and the creative direction of the Johns Hopkins audio storytelling project about bioethics. The project won a Signal Award for Best Science Show.
I continue to lead editing for “A Slight Change of Plans,” a show that combines science and storytelling to explore ideas about change and uncertainty. The show, hosted by cognitive scientist Dr. Maya Shankar, won Apple’s Best Podcast of the Year and an Ambie Award for Best Personal Growth podcast.
I was a developmental editor and researcher for Dr. Maya Shankar’s book “The Other Side of Change.”
Additional storytelling:
The science of self compassionate touch (UC Berkeley, Greater Good Science Center)
The potential of MDMA therapy to help Black folks process racial trauma (The Nod/ Spotify).
On the unexpected side effects of pregnancy (The Cut/New York Magazine).
The best way to reach me is on email at kparkinsonmorgan [at] gmail.com