2021 Field Reporting Grant Recipients
Mary G. Hager Reporting Grant
Amal Ahmed - Climate, Environment and Environmental Justice Reporter, The Texas Observer; Dallas, Texas
Project: The Export Boom - The United States’ oil and gas export boom has been a decade in the making. All along the Texas coast, communities are fighting back against the industry’s expansion. (originally The Texas Observer; syndicated by The Nation)
Indigenous Reporting Grants
Brandon Yadegari Moreno- Freelance Journalist/Climate Justice Fellow, High Country News; Berkeley, Calif.
Surya Milner - Editorial Intern, High Country News; Bozeman, Mont.
Projects: Reviving Traditional Apsáalooke Water Sources - High Country News
Living Water: Three Generations of Apsáalooke Revive a River (film) - High Country News
Elizabeth Miller - Freelance Journalist; Santa Fe, NM
Project: “How the Hoopa Valley Tribe Monitors a Rare Carnivore” - Undark
Environmental Justice Reporting Grants
Jillian Kestler D’Amours - Editor, Al Jazeera English; Quebec
Megan O’Toole - Freelance Investigative and Data Journalist, Toronto
Project: Toxic legacy: The fight to end environmental racism in Canada. - Aljazeera
Xander Peters - Freelance Journalist; New Orleans, LA
Project: “How Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Are Already Affecting Black Farmers in the South."
Guerry Beam Memorial Grant
Marianne Messina - Freelance Journalist; Nashville, Tenn.
Project: “Ropeless and the right whale – can fishing culture and technology align in time to save the species?”
Andrew Weegar Memorial Grant
Kyla Mandel - Freelance Journalist; Washington, DC
Project: “To regrow forests, the U.S. needs billions of seeds—and many more 'seed hunters’” - National Geographic
Eric Barker - Outdoors and Environmental Editor, Lewiston Tribune, Lewiston, Idaho
Project: River Road Trip
Part 1- The Elwha: When dams fell, salmon returned
Part 2 - The John Day: Fewer dams provided migrating fish a significant advantage
Frank Allen Field Reporting Grants
Ashley Braun - Freelance Journalist; Seattle
Story: Making Nature Less Predictable - bioGraphic
Sena Christian - Freelance Journalist; Sacramento, Calif.
Stories:
Creating a Green Workforce - Comstock’s
Can traditional knowledge keep California from going up in flames? - Ensia
Brent Crane - Freelance Journalist; San Diego, Calif.
Project: “Postcolonial Monkeys Are Wreaking Havoc in the Caribbean”
Zaire Daniels - Freelance Journalist; Detroit
Stories:
Riverwalkers aims to educate Detroit River anglers community on how to eat fish safely - Planet Detroit
We’re Fixin’ to Fish aims to recruit the next generation of Detroit anglers - Planet Detroit
Terry Haines - Producer, Alaska Fisheries Report, KMXT; Kodiak, Alaska
Project: Three-part Series on the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council
Part One - Crab Crash
Part Two - Bycatch Reduction vs. Optimum Yield
Part Three - Codfish
Molly Samuel - Senior Environment Reporter, WABE; Atlanta
Project: “Science and Solutions for the Southeast’s 'Water Wars’”
Lee van der Voo - Freelance Journalist; Portland, Ore.
Project: The True Cost of Tuna: Marine Observers Dying at Sea - Civil Eats