Rosalind Reid is executive and program director for the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, the culmination of a love affair with science writing that began when she walked into a university news bureau in 1984. Six years later she joined the staff of American Scientist magazine, serving as editor-in-chief from 1992 to 2008 and taking a leave to serve as the first journalist in residence at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara. As a magazine editor, Ros also presented workshops on the visual communication of science. That work led her to Harvard, where she helped launch the Institute for Applied Computational Science. Under her direction since 2013, CASW has launched the CASW Showcase website and co-organized the 2017 World Conference of Science Journalists with the National Association of Science Writers, while continuing its fellowships and awards programs and the New Horizons in Science briefings, which Reid organizes for each ScienceWriters meeting. In addition to magazine and newspaper awards, Ros’s recognitions include honorary memberships in Sigma Xi and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology and election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A member of the US National Association of Science Writers since 1986, she holds degrees in political and policy science and journalism and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.