Meet Sara Kiley

Sara Kiley Watson is a writer and editor who got her start as a journalist during her studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Upon graduating from her master’s program in 2019, she took on various full-time editorial roles at Popular Science magazine where she established and lead the Sustainability and News verticals.

From 2023 to 2025, she served as the Associate Editor at climate-action newsletter one5c, where she curated, edited, and wrote stories for the bi-weekly newsletter that reaches more than 200,000 inboxes globally.

Her work has been featured in Nautilus Magazine, NPR, Popular Science, Business Insider, and more.

She lives in The Hague with her husband and puppy. When she’s not writing about science, she’s likely reading fantasy novels or wandering through a seaside forest.