Claire Hutkins Seda is a communications professional with almost two decades of experience in writing, editing, and developing award-winning communications campaigns. Since 2014, she has been heading up MCN’s numerous publications, and has expanded her responsibilities at MCN to include strategic communications and planning, internal communications, and marketing. Seda's work has been published in academic and medical journals, in leading newspapers, and online. She heads up MCN's active blog and acts as managing editor and lead writer for MCN's in-print clinical journal, Streamline. She has previously worked for nonprofits focused on: land conservation, nature education, and research; fair trade certification and labeling; and the prevention and cleanup of groundwater contamination. She graduated with college honors with a Bachelor's degree in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.