Nathanael Johnson
Health Editor
Health Editor
Nathanael is the health editor at the startup mycirQle. His work has been published in Harper's Magazine, and featured on This American Life. After cutting his teeth at a small-town daily newspaper in Idaho, Nathanael went on to work at the public radio station KALW in San Francisco, as a Clay Felker Fellow at New York Magazine, and as a freelancer. He is currently writing a book about the idea that what is natural is healthy, due out February 2013. Nathanael graduated from Pomona College in 2001 and received his master's degree in journalism from University of California, Berkeley, in 2005.
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