2020 Field Reporting Grant Recipients
Indigenous Reporting Grants
Tripp Crouse - News Director, KNBA; Anchorage, AK
Project: "Climate Impacts Affect Reliance on Subsistence Harvesting of Bird Eggs and Nesting Cycles"
Bellamy Pailthorp - Environment Reporter, KNKX; Seattle, WA
McKenna Hunt - Independent producer; Seattle, WA
Project: "Reviving the Whale Hunt"
Ari Snider - Fellow in Community Journalism, KCAW; Sitka, AK
Project: "Restoring Keex' Kwaan: Indigenous Land Management for the 21st Century"
Miranda Weiss - Freelance Writer; Homer, AK
Project: "In Alaska's Bering Sea Villages, Toxic Algae Threaten Marine Food Webs and a Way of Life"
Environmental Justice Reporting Grant
Carrie Arnold - Freelance Writer; Williamsburg, VA
Project: "Kepone's Never-Ending Toxic Legacy"
Sheri McWhirter - Environment Reporter, Traverse City Record-Eagle; Traverse City, MI
Project: "PFAS Testing of Groundwater Used for Drinking in Northern Michigan Indigenous Homes"
Alessandra Bergamin - Freelance Journalist; Los Angeles, CA
Project: "When the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster Spells Violence for Women"
Laura Tillman - Freelance Journalist; Mexico City, Mexico
Book Project: The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García
Guerry Beam Memorial Grant
Celia Talbot Tobin - Freelance Photojournalist; Mexico City, Mexico
Project: The Fishing Women of Sinaloa
Andrew Weegar Memorial Grant
Jennifer Oldham - Freelance Journalist; Aurora, CO
Project: Oil drilling on sensitive New Mexico public lands puts drinking water, rare caves at risk
Yereth Rosen - Freelance Journalist; Anchorage, AK
Project: "Bering Sea Defenders"
Frank Allen Field Reporting Grants
Ashley Ahearn - Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer; Winthrop, WA
Eric Wagner - Freelance Writer and Author; Seattle, WA
Project: "The View from Destruction: One Island, Twelve Thousand Birds, and the Future of the North Pacific"
Emma Jacobs - Freelance Journalist; Montreal, Quebec
Project: Undark Podcast Episode 46: A Debate on the Dregs of Asbestos Mining