Dana Bate

About the Author

Dana Bate is a writer and award-winning journalist, whose writing has appeared in numerous outlets, including McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Culinate, and Smithsonian.com. Prior to her writing career, Dana spent five years working as a field producer and on-air reporter for the PBS Nightly Business Report, where she won the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for a series she produced on the Indian economy. Bate studied molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University as an undergraduate, and received her master’s degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, where she won the Harrington Award for outstanding promise in the field of journalism. She divides her time between Washington, DC, and Philadelphia.