Where this year’s grantees hail from.
2025 Field Reporting Grant Recipients
Steve Dolberg Memorial Reporting Grant
Jordan Gale
Freelance Journalist; Portland, Ore.
Project: You Will Never Want for Anything: The Story of the Klamath River
Guerry Beam Memorial Reporting Grant
Julia Tilton
Reporter/Multimedia Producer, The Daily Yonder; Washington D.C.
Project: Charging Resilience on Casco Bay: Maine's First Electric-Powered Sea Farms
Mary G. Hager Memorial Reporting Grants
Yessenia Funes
Freelance Journalist; New York
Project: Trump’s Mass Deportations: Losing the People Who Power a Just Transition and Disaster Recovery in the U.S.
Colleen Hamilton
Independent Journalist; New York
Project: Facing the Storm: The Climate Crisis’ Impact on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Youth
Diana Kruzman
Freelance Journalist; New York
Project: Fighting to Reclaim Newe Segobia: Western Shoshone Combat Nuclear Testing and Waste Disposal in Nevada.
Andrew Weegar Memorial Reporting Grants
Bill Kearney
Senior Editor/Environment, South Florida Sun Sentinel; Miami
Project: The Serpent and the South: The race to stop the Burmese python from conquering the Bible Belt
Daniel Rothberg
Freelance Writer and Editor; Davis, Calif.
Project: Why the Nation's Driest State is Buying Back Groundwater Rights
Sebastian Tuinder
Freelance Producer and Director; New York
Project: Intertidal: Could Maine's Soft-Shell Clam Industry Collapse?
Environmental Justice Reporting Grants
Christen Aldridge
Freelance Journalist; Denver
Project: The Face of Food Justice in Colorado: Meet the Activists and Organizations Working to Bring Equity (and Nutritious Options) to Food Deserts Across the Centennial State
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
Reporter/Editor, Al Jazeera English; Montreal, QC
Megan O’Toole
Freelance Journalist; Halifax, NS
Project: ‘Mercury nightmare’: Inside one First Nation’s decades-long fight for justice
Nneka Okona
Freelance Journalist; Stone Mountain, Ga.
Project: Illuminating the ecological grief of Black communities in the South
Daniel Richardson
Managing Editor, The Peach Pit; Atlanta
Project: The only game that matters: Industrial expansion touches generations of South Augusta
Wildfire Reporting Grants
Ashli Blow
Environment and Public Health Correspondent, The Lookout Eugene-Springfield; Eugene, Ore.
Project: On the Line: Oregon Wildfires in Trump 2.0
Alejandra Borunda
Climate and Health Reporter, NPR; Carpinteria, Calif.
Project: Health impacts of wildfire recovery
Ashley Braun
Freelance Journalist; Seattle
Project: The Perfect Experiment: How an Oregon ecosystem recovers after wildfire burns a living laboratory
Gabrielle Canon
Climate Reporter, The Guardian; Oakland, Calif.
Project: Ada County, Idaho
Katherine Cheng
Photographer and Visual Storyteller; Toronto/Hong Kong
Project: Learning to Live with Wildfire: From "Combat" to "Coexistence"
Jennifer Oldham
Freelance Journalist; Aurora, Colo.
Projects: Zone Zero and Foothills Catalog
Indigenous Reporting Grants
Odette Auger
Freelance Journalist; Squirrel Cove, B.C.
Project: Social impacts of “green” mining in North America
Tiffany Cassidy
Freelance Journalist; Kitchener, Ont.
Project: Sovereignty and Critical Minerals in Canada
Alan Halaly
Water Reporter, Las Vegas Review-Journal; Las Vegas
Project: Reporting on Thacker Pass
Adriana Martinez-Smiley
Environment and Indigenous Affairs Reporter, WYSO Public Radio; Yellow Springs, Ohio
Project: What's sacred: tribal burial sites in Ohio continue to be disturbed and desecrated
Dionne Phillips
Secwépemc Reporter, IndigiNews; Williams Lake, B.C.
Project: Nuxalk Youth’s Revival
Caroline Tracey
Independent Journalist; Tucson, Ariz.
Project: The Green Colonialism of the Borderlands Energy Boom
Chloe Williams
Freelance Journalist; Yellowknife, NT
Project: Refreezing the Arctic
Frank Allen Field Reporting Grants
J.D. Allen and Sabrina Garone
Higher Ground Podcast/WSHU Public Radio; Fairfield, Conn.
Project: A Self-Guided Virtual Tour Of Long Island Sound Estuary
Amy Green
Florida Correspondent, Inside Climate News; Orlando, Fla.
Project: A Gesture of Hope
Katie Hill
Freelance Journalist; Polaris, Mont.
Project: Zombie Deer: Biologists, Hunters, and the War on Chronic Wasting Disease
Hannah Johansson
Freelance Journalist; Castro Valley, Calif.
Project: Amrik Basra is going out of business
Joan Meiners
Climate News and Storytelling Reporter, The Arizona Republic; Phoenix
Project: Climate change across Arizona, a state on the frontlines of heat, drought and community impacts
Christian von Preysing
Reporter and Anchor, KRGV-TV ; McAllen, Texas
Project: Snowmelt Desert
Amanda Zhou
Climate Reporter, Seattle Times; Seattle
Project: How will Washington shift off fossil fuels?