Career
Mieszkowski is the environment and health reporter for The Bay Citizen, which is part of the Center for Investigative Reporting. She has been a senior writer for Salon.com and Fast Company magazine. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Glamour, Reader"s Digest, Slate, Mississippi, and San Francisco magazine.
Her radio commentaries have been featured on National Public Radio"s All Things Considered and Institutional Revolutionary Party"s Living on Earth programs.
At Salon.com from February 2000 to August 2009, Mieszkowski covered the environment, science, and technology.
Her 2000 story "Fumble.com" was anthologized by Michael Lewis in Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, published in 2008. Her story 2006 story "I make $1.45 a week, and I love it!" about Amazon.com"s Mechanical Turk was anthologized by Steven Levy in The Best American Technology Writing 2007.
Mieszkowski was the sixth employee of Women"s Wire (later Womencom) in 1994.
On staff at Fast Company from 1997 to 2000, Mieszkowski covered Silicon Valley. Her column about San Francisco Bay area subcultures, "Culture Shocked," ran in the San Francisco Bay Guardian between 1997 and 2003. Mieszkowski graduated from Yale University with a bachelor"s degree in Literature in 1993.
