2025 Field Reporting Grant Recipients

Steve Dolberg Memorial Reporting Grant

Jordan Gale
Freelance Journalist; Portland, Ore.

Story: The Tribal Victory of the Century - Boston College Law
(grant also supported additional reporting for larger project)

Guerry Beam Memorial Reporting Grant

Julia Tilton
Reporter/Multimedia Producer, The Daily Yonder; Washington D.C.

Story: Meet the Small Business Owners Electrifying Maine’s Rural Coast

Mary G. Hager Memorial Reporting Grants

Yessenia Funes
Freelance Journalist; New York

Story: When Helene hit, they lost their homes. Under Trump, they could lose even more.

Colleen Hamilton
Independent Journalist; New York

Series in Teen Vogue:
Part 1: Young People Are Fighting Climate Anxiety in Arkansas With Parties and Free Menstrual Cups

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.

Story: Well into the future - KNPR/The Daily Yonder

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: These Activists Are Working to Combat Food Insecurity in Colorado - Westword

Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
Reporter/Editor, Al Jazeera English; Montreal, QC

Megan O’Toole
Freelance Journalist; Halifax, NS

Story: 'Everybody is a fighter in Grassy': The poisoned river and a First Nation's quest for justice. - Al Jazeera

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.

Stories:

After the Eaton Fire, a Los Angeles Community Garden Rebuilds

Zone Zero, Defensible Space, and Other Ways to Protect a Home From Wildfire

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:
Six-Part Series: Nevada's 'white gold' rush - Las Vegas Review-Journal

Cancer, mercury and extraction: Nevada mining town, near Thacker Pass, has polluted past

American taxpayers own a stake in this Nevada lithium mine. Will it pay off?

‘Force the table to come to you’: Nevada ranching town worried about lithium mine

Indigenous conflict with Nevada lithium mine endures years after protest

Inside the little-known protest lawsuit from a powerful lithium mining company

‘Consultation is not consent’: What rights do tribes have when mining comes knocking?

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

Stories:
On solid ice: the plan to refreeze the Arctic - The Narwhal
What an effort to save Arctic sea ice means to the people who depend on it - The Narwhal

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

Nick Bowlin
Freelance Journalist; Gunnison, Colo.

Story: Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. - ProPublica

Amy Green
Florida Correspondent, Inside Climate News; Orlando, Fla.

Stories:
In Florida, Questions Surround the State’s Attempt to Expand Its Role in Everglades Restoration

Now in its 25th Year, a Historic Effort to Save the Everglades Evolves as the Climate Warms

To Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe, the Lands Around Alligator Alcatraz Are Sacred, Pythons and All

In Florida, State Rules Concentrate Toxic Smoke in Underserved Communities

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: Eight-part series
The Republic's climate reporter biked the Arizona Trail. You can follow her journey. - The Arizona Republic

From Utah: Wildfire From the South Rim: Water
From Flagstaff: Public Lands
From Payson: Transitions
From the Superstitions: Solutions
From the Tortillas: Biodiversity
From the Sky Islands: Limits
From the Santa Ritas: Connection

Christian von Preysing
Reporter and Anchor, KRGV-TV ; McAllen, Texas

Project: Snowmelt Desert

Amanda Zhou
Climate Reporter, Seattle Times; Seattle

Story: As WA’s coal ban looms, Montana wind fills only some of the energy gap