Nadia Drake
Nadia Drake is a science journalist who writes the No Place Like Home blog for National Geographic. She earned an A.B. in biology, psychology, and dance at Cornell University, worked in a clinical genetics lab at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, then returned to Cornell for her Ph.D. in genetics and development. She is a 2011 graduate of the Science Communications program at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the daughter of SETI pioneer Frank Drake.
In 2017, Drake won the David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism from the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society for "Found! Gravitational Waves, or a Wrinkle in Spacetime," which was published on National Geographic’s website on February 11, 2016. In 2019, she received the Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award for her article “Pictures of Worlds to Come,” which appeared in the December 6, 2018, issue of Nature.
