Kara Platoni

Kara Platoni is WIRED's science editor and is based in the Bay Area. She oversees coverage of health, biotech, space, energy, and robotics stories. Prior to joining WIRED, she was a lecturer at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, and started her career as a staff writer for the East Bay Express. She is the author of We Have the Technology, a book about hacking sensory perception, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Scripps College.