2018 Field Reporting Grant Recipients

Environmental Justice Reporting Grant

Debra Krol - Freelance Journalist; Phoenix, AZ

Project: "Native Californians Gaining a Bigger Voice in Watershed Management"
Stories: How Saving Southern California’s Steelhead Trout Could Also Help the State’s Watersheds

Amelia Urry - Freelance Journalist; Seattle, WA

Story: Death of the Reef: Scientists are putting antibiotics into the ocean—on purpose. And it’s our only hope.

Michael Dax - Freelance Journalist; Santa Fe, NM

Project: "When the Wheaties Come to Town: A Journey into a Vanishing American Present"
Stories: Racing Against the Harvest, Custom Wheat Cutters Struggle to Stay Relevant
Women in Male-Dominated Harvest Industry Help Each Other
The Decline of Custom Harvests, and the Struggle of Rural America

Meg Vatterott - Multimedia Journalist; Kansas City, MO

Project: "The Mazahua Frente and Mexico City's Water Crisis"

Kevin Stark - Midwest Energy News/Freelance Journalist; Chicago, IL

Project: "Inside an Indiana Lead Crisis: One Woman's Journey Out of a Polluted Public Housing Complex - A Trump Diaries Podcast Episode"

Joshua Zaffos - Freelance Journalist; Fort Collins, CO

Project: "Uranium Revival at White Mesa"

Sophia Perez - KKMP Radio; Saipan, MP

Project: "Alternative Zero"
Complete Series: The Alternative Zero Project

Allen Best - Freelance Journalist; Arvada, CO

Project: "Picuris Pueblo: Energy Transition in the Rural Southwest"

Rebecca Owen - Freelance Journalist; Silverton, OR

Project: "Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Me Away from Wild Horses"