Former APF fellow Erika Hayasaki has joined the board of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Hayasaki is an associate professor of literary journalism at the University of California, Irvine. She won an APF fellowship in 2018 and concentrated on epigenetics and the future of gene editing.
A former reporter at the Los Angeles Times, she is the author of “The Death Class: A True Story About Life” (Simon & Schuster, 2014) and “Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity and the Meaning of Family” (Algonquin Books, 2022). Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Marie Claire, MIT Technology Review, Slate, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and other outlets.
Her science writing has been featured multiple times in Longform’s Best of Science Writing. She teaches courses on health, medical and science writing and multimedia storytelling. She also was a Knight-Wallace Reporting fellow and has served as a judge for the APF annual competition.
She joins board members Maud Beelman, Margaret Engel, Frankie Fitzgerald, Louis Freedburg, Robin Marantz Henig, Patrick Hoge, Mike
