Andy Olin is a senior editor and writer for Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and its Urban Edge blog. He has covered pioneering cancer research, patient care and prevention at MD Anderson Cancer Center and worked as a freelance writer. As a journalist, he spent more than a decade at the Houston Chronicle in roles including entertainment editor, web producer and copy desk chief for the Features Department. Olin earned bachelor’s degrees in English and Journalism at Texas A&M University.