She has written for Nature, National Geographic, and Scientific American, and spoke on antibiotics at TED 2015.
[1] In 2009, McKenna received a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship from The Journalism School at Columbia University.
[3] In 2013, she joined the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work on a Fellowship.
[4] McKenna has written for Nature,[5] Scientific American, Wired and the National Geographic,[3] and has been a staff reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Boston Herald and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
[9] Her article "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" is included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014.