Hi, I'm Rebecca.
I'm the managing editor at Anthropic and former managing editor of Stripe Press and Increment magazine. I'm passionate about telling stories and amplifying voices at the frontiers of scientific and technological advancement.
About
I completed my BA in English and Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal. During my studies I contributed fiction to the Concordia and McGill anthologies The Void and The Veg, reported for the student newspaper The Link, and wrote for several now-defunct music blogs.
After a short stint as an exceptionally clumsy bartender, I moved to New York and completed an MA in Journalism, Magazine Writing, at New York University. I was the assistant editor for the American Academy of Neurology publications Brain & Life and Neurology Today from 2014 to 2015 and held various editorial roles at Kickstarter. I've written for publications including The Creative Independent, Huffington Post, Mashable, Observer, Vanity Fair, The Daily Dot, Brooklyn Magazine, and others.
I relocated to London in 2018, where I live with my husband, a growing stack of books, and a dwindling number of plants. When I'm not reading, writing, or editing, you'll find me browsing local bookshops, looking for London's best vegan comfort food, at the climbing gym, or escaping the city for a hike.
Writing
A selection of my published writing.
- Brain-computer interfaces Works in Progress
- Jack Rusher on the need to sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change The Creative Independent
- Jordan Mechner on taking inspiration from family history The Creative Independent
- Phil Elverum on following the idea The Creative Independent
- Kickstarter's season of the witch Kickstarter
- Food for thought Brain & Life
- Try this at home Brain & Life
- Rethink chronic pain Brain & Life
- Should there be a moratorium on human germline editing? Neurology Today
- John Hardy on unraveling the genetics of Alzheimer's disease Neurology Today
- Lorenz Studer on developing stem cell therapies for Parkinson's disease Neurology Today
Editing
Books I've contributed to as a developmental, line, or copy editor.
- Maintenance: Of Everything Stewart Brand
- The Origins of Efficiency Brian Potter
- The Scaling Era Dwarkesh Patel and Gavin Leech
- Boom Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
- Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson
- Stubborn Attachments Tyler Cowen
Currently reading
The Making of the Atomic Bomb