2021 Annual Workshop Fellows

  • Amy Alonzo Amy Alonzo - Amy Alonzo is the outdoor, environment and wildfire reporter for the Reno Gazette Journal, Northern Nevada’s largest newspaper. She has more than two decades of journalism experience at five newspapers… (...)
  • Jariel Arvin - Jariel Arvin is Essential Voices Fellow with Vox.com covering the intersection of climate change and world news. Prior to joining Vox, he spent several years teaching English in Vietnam and… (...)
  • Natasha Blakely - Natasha Blakely is the news director of Detroit Public Television’s Great Lakes Now, which focuses on water and drinking water issues in the Great Lakes region, covering policy, environment, recreation… (...)
  • Katie Brown - Katie Brown is a freelance science journalist covering climate, equity and sustainability. Her work has appeared in High Country News, Mongabay, Science News and The San Jose Mercury News. For… (...)
  • Hadeer El-hadary - Hadeer El-hadary is an Egyptian freelance journalist. She writes for Egyptian and Arab websites such as Scientific American, Vice Arabia, Miraa, AL Shrouk and Aleyada. Her work focuses on the… (...)
  • Emily Foxhall - Emily Foxhall covers the environment for the Houston Chronicle. She joined the paper in 2015 as a suburban reporter, playing a key role in the paper's breaking news and enterprise… (...)
  • Verena Hoelzl - Verena Hoelzl is an independent reporter based in Bangkok. She is covering Myanmar and Bangladesh and reports on politics, conflict and displacement for The New Humanitarian among others.  Twitter: @verenahoelzl (...)
  • Linda Jue - Linda Jue is editor-at-large for the investigative site 100Reporters and contributing editor for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ news site, palabra. (sic). She is also a reporting and writing… (...)
  • Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman - Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman is a multiple award winning development journalist working for Ghana's GHOne TV as a senior reporter and news anchor. Ridwan is a recipient of the 2018 Lorenzo Natali… (...)
  • Colin Kinniburgh - Colin Kinniburgh is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist covering climate change, cities, and inequality. His work has appeared in outlets including Grist, the Nation, and the New Republic. He also staffs… (...)
  • Andrea Lopez-Villafaña - Andrea Lopez-Villafaña is a community reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. She covers the neighborhoods of the city of San Diego. She currently serves as president of the National Association… (...)
  • Miguel Otarola - Miguel Otarola joined Colorado Public Radio in 2021 as a climate and environment reporter. He previously reported on Minneapolis and its suburbs for four years at the Star Tribune. Otarola… (...)
  • Juliana Feliciano Reyes - Juliana Feliciano Reyes is an investigative reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Before joining the investigative team in 2021, she spent three years covering labor for The Inquirer while also writing… (...)
  • Sophia Schmidt - Sophia Schmidt reports on her home state for NPR member station Delaware Public Media. As a general assignment reporter, she has covered everything from election security to the first female… (...)
  • Susan Shain - Susan Shain Susan Shain is a freelance journalist who covers climate change and sustainability (among many other things!), and whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic… (...)
  • Inayat Singh - Inayat Singh is an investigative reporter at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, based in Toronto. He covers energy policy and Canada's federal plan to meet its emissions targets under the Paris… (...)
  • Matthew Smith - Matthew Smith is a reporter/anchor for KIRO 7 in Seattle, Washington. He previously worked as a reporter at 7 Action News in Detroit where he earned Emmy awards two consecutive… (...)
  • Michael Sol Warren - Michael Sol Warren is an environment and outdoors reporter for NJ Advance Media, with stories appearing online at NJ.com and in print in The Star-Ledger and other New Jersey newspapers.… (...)
  • Ryan Spencer - Ryan Spencer has spent two years on Cape Cod covering the Town of Mashpee, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and regional environmental issues from climate change to water pollution for The Enterprise… (...)
  • Claire Stremple - Claire Stremple is a public radio reporter who covers health and the environment for Alaska’s Energy Desk and KTOO in Juneau. You can hear her work on Alaska News Nightly,… (...)