Melissa Pandika is a freelance writer and journalist interested in science, health, social justice and their intersection. She has published news and feature stories in Discover, VICE, the Los Angeles Times and Bon Appétit’s Healthyish, among other outlets. Her personal essays have appeared in New York Magazine’s The Cut, InStyle and SELF. She has begun work on a memoir that traces the origins of her struggles with anxiety to her parents’ immigration experiences.