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352        <p>I'm a freelance writer, reporter, and correspondent. I currently hold a climate change disinformation reporting fellowship with Heinrich Böll Foundation. In 2023, I held an energy journalism fellowship supported by Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Politics and an environmental justice reporting fellowship supported by the Mellon Foundation and Wake Forest University’s Environmental and Systemic Justice Summer Institute, and in 2022, I held a climate change reporting fellowship with the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs at Ohio University. My work has appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, MIT Technology Review, Audubon, Esquire, Reason, the Bitter Southerner, HuffPost, Environmental Health News, Earth Island Journal, Prism, Texas Monthly, the Texas Observer, Texas Highways, and others. I'm also a former special correspondent at the Christian Science Monitor, where I covered climate change and conservation; a former contributing writer at Scalawag, where I founded and wrote the magazine's weekly foodways and environment newsletter, Salt, Soil, &amp; Supper; and a former staff writer at Orlando Weekly, where I covered the 2018 midterm elections, civil rights, oddballs, and more.</p>
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