Vanessa Hrvatin

I was recently a guest on Jeff Noble’s FASD Success Show podcast! You can listen by clicking here.

Vanessa is a multimedia journalist, science writer, and science communications specialist currently working as a freelance journalist and writer, as well as a part-time Communications Coordinator for the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at the University of British Columbia. She was the 2017/2018 recipient of the Michelle Lang Fellowship, and spent a year working at the National Post and Calgary Herald on a special series about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

Her work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Reader's Digest, the Canadian Medial Association Journal News, the Toronto Star,  and Canadian Geographic, and she spent time at Global News BC as a broadcast writer.

Vanessa holds a Master of Journalism from the University of British Columbia (2017) and a BSc. in biology and environmental science from Queen's University (2014).

Her goal is to tell important stories and she has a special passion for science and health reporting. 

Have a story that needs telling? Tweet @VanessaHrvatin or email vanessahrvatin03@gmail.com