{"id":1319,"date":"2018-06-06T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/amanda-yarnell\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T15:06:45","slug":"amanda-yarnell","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/amanda-yarnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Yarnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chemist by training and a journalist by passion, Amanda works for the American Chemical Society&#8217;s flagship chemistry news outlet, C&#038;EN.  She was an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins before doing her graduate work in chemistry at MIT, where she studied the mechanism of action of the cancer drug cisplatin. It&#8217;s also where she discovered the world of science journalism, which inspired her to merge her fascination with the power and beauty of chemistry with her long-time love of telling stories. 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