This is what I look like most of the time. Photo by Kayleigh Shawn
I’m from New Jersey. People say they can tell.
I’m a writer and producer who explores how humans tangle with science and technology. I’m the creator and host of the recent podcast Tested from CBC and NPR. I’m also the brain behind Flash Forward Presents, a podcast network that demystifies the future, featuring hit shows like Flash Forward and Advice For And From The Future. My work has been nominated for an Emmy and an Eisner award, and I’ve covered everything from spoofed fingerprints from a dead guy, to fake tumbleweed farms, to million dollar baccarat heists.
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To get in touch about Flash Forward, contact rose@flashforwardpod.com. To get in touch about potential freelance work or collaborations, contact rose@roseveleth.com. I’m represented by Caroline Eisenmann at The Frances Goldin Literary Agency for book stuff and Nate Miller at Manage-ment for TV/Film stuff.
Longer bio
Rose Eveleth is a producer, host, reporter and writer based in Berkeley. They’ve dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms. These days, they explores how humans tangle with science and technology.
Rose has a degree in ecology, behavior and evolution from UC San Diego where they spent most of their time hanging around in the Pelagic Invertebrates Collection at Scripps Institute of Oceanography as an “apprentice curator.” Then they moved to New York City to get a graduate degree in journalism at NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting program.
Rose has been a columnist for WIRED, BBC Future and Motherboard, the producer of the Story Collider podcast, the special media manager at Nautilus, the managing editor for LadyBits, an editor of all things animated at TED Education, and a contributing editor at Smart Planet. They also edited the Smart News blog at Smithsonian Magazine, and did a short stint filling in for the Atlantic’s science editor.
In 2016 they helped ESPN's award winning documentary series 30 for 30 launch their podcast. They also reported and hosted two episodes in the inaugural season of the show, one about a death-defying trip to the North Pole, and another about a brazen baccarat heist.com/episodes/a-queen-of-sorts/.
With Meehan Crist, they co-edited the 2018 edition of What Future: The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology, and the Planet.
Rose has also taught science journalism and podcasting at NYU, the CUNY Graduate School, the Banff Institute and UnionDocs.
These days Rose is the brain behind Flash Forward Presents, a podcast network that demystifies the future, featuring hit shows like Flash Forward and Advice For And From The Future. They’re also the Executive Producer at Bucket of Eels, a podcast production house that creates depth podcast series that help people better understand and appreciate their world. Their most recent project is a deep dive narrative podcast from CBC and NPR called Tested about the past, present and future of gender verification in sports.
In 2021 they published their first book, Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So Possible) Tomorrows. Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong called it “an essential work of imagination and journalism.” The book was nominated for an Eisner Award.
Rose's work has been featured in the Best American Science Writing anthology. They were a 2016 MJ Bear Fellow, and a 2021 New America fellow, and have been nominated for an Emmy for the Netflix television show The Future Of.
When they’re not working, they’re either in the garage creating ceramic sculptures, lifting heavy things, or trying to climb some weird plastic rocks in a gym.
