[1][2] At age 5, she began showing horses competitively and was involved in 4-H as well as her high school and college equestrian teams.
[4] She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in political science with a focus on Russia and the former Soviet Union.
[citation needed] She has covered local government for Miami Today News and health care and technology for Crain's Cleveland Business.
[4] While at Bloomberg, she interviewed the chief executives of the world's largest health care companies, including Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, and Eli Lilly.
Her reporting has taken her to China, where she went inside Chinese hospitals, research labs, and homes for a four-part series on the country's evolving health care system.