Jordan Gass-Poore’

Jordan (she/her) is a freelance journalist based in Long Island City, New York. Her two-part multimedia project will investigate the threats to public health and the environment in New Jersey from leaking underground storage tanks.


Jamal Jordan

Jamal (he/him) is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. His multimedia fellowship project will center storytelling about LGBTQ communities, particularly exploring the Radical Queer Faeries and their relationship to nature.


mónica teresa ortiz

mónica (they/them) is a freelance journalist based in Lubbock, Texas. Their audio & video fellowship project will focus on a species of oak tree recently found inside Big Bend National Park, exploring how it symbolizes narratives of survival along the US-Mexico border.


Taylar Stagner

Taylar (she/her) is an intern at High Country News Magazine, based in Riverton, Wyoming. Her fellowship project will explore Yellowstone National Park’s management of bison herds and its impact on tribal hunting.

Published story: Buffalo bounty bolsters young Wind River food pantry system


Anjan Sundaram

Anjan (he/him) is a freelance reporter. His fellowship project will focus on indigenous frontline environmental defenders.

Published story: Indigenous activists are risking their lives for butterflies


Erin X. Wong

Erin (she/they) is a freelance reporter based in Brooklyn, New York. Her project will explore the personal stories and global connections of waste-pickers, and illustrate how informal workers around the world will be affected by international policies that seek to end plastic.

Published story: How waste pickers are fighting for recognition in the UN global plastics treaty