2019 Field Reporting Grant Recipients
Environmental Justice Reporting Grants
Wudan Yan - Freelance Journalist; Seattle, WA
Story: Fallout: First cancer, now delayed compensation for Indigenous downwinder communities - High Country News
Martha Pskowski - Freelance Journalist; Cuauhtemoc, Mexico
Story: How Indigenous Mexicans Took on Big Energy and Won - The Nation
Jesse Deconto - Freelance Journalist; Durham, NC
Stories: Baltimore is at the Vanguard of a National Black Vegan Movement - Civil Eats
Fighting Asthma with Compost - In These Times
Guerry Beam Memorial Grant
Isabelle Groc - Freelance Journalist; Vancouver, BC
Book Project: Sea Otters: A Survival Story - Orca Books
Andrew Weegar Memorial Grant
Virginia Gewin - Freelance Journalist; Portland, OR
Frank Allen Field Reporting Grants
Brett Walton - Correspondent, Circle of Blue; Seattle, WA
Story Package: After Fair Bluff Flooded
Sara Talpos - Freelance Journalist; Ann Arbor, MI
Story: Industrial Pollution Is in Your Blood. Is That a Form of Battery? - Undark
Gabe Popkin - Freelance Journalist; Mount Rainier, MD
Story: The Green Miles: Kentucky was devastated for decades by mountaintop removal. Now scientists have figured out a way to undo the damage — one tree at a time - The Washington Post Magazine