The Uproot Project Database is a critical resource for journalists who are seeking to connect with editors, mentors, experts, sources, and other journalists of color within the environmental space. As a network by and for environmental and climate journalists of color, The Uproot Project is committed to diversity in the media, which means spotlighting diverse voices. The people you will find in our database identify as Black, Indigenous, or other people of color, who have exercised expertise in climate, science, social justice, and environmental spaces.
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HOW TO USE
To navigate The Uproot Project Database, simply use the filters to find what you’re looking for whether it’s a mentor, subject matter expert or a freelance journalist. The database can also be narrowed down by the member’s geographic location as well as their availability to mentor, freelance, meet up for coffee based on location, or be interviewed as a subject matter expert. The database has been fully vetted and verified as of December 2022. We will continue to update, add, and verify members on a rolling basis. If you have any questions, please contact info@uprootproject.org.
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Aarohi Sheth
Aarohi is a multimedia journalist -
Aaron Cantú
Covering environmental justice and climate in California and beyond. -
Aaron Wang
Xuandi Wang is a writer and filmmaker currently based in Chicago. He is passionate about exploring and highlighting issues on urban politics and environmental governance. He also writes nonfiction interrogating themes such as queerness and diasporic experience. -
Abhijeet Gurjar
Abhijeet is independent visual journalist contributing to The Times, The CS Monitor, Context, Reuters, Mongabay. He has received fellowships of Internews and PRB for public healthcare and storytelling grant of EJN. He is also scholarship winner to FotoEvidence workshop 2021 in France. -
adam mahoney
Adam is a reporter at Capital B, a nonprofit newsroom prioritizing Black communities across the country. He writes about all the things we need to survive: clean air and water, safe and affordable housing, and a loving community. -
Aina Marzia
Aina is an independent journalist and reporter based in El Paso, Texas -
Alastair Bitsoi
Alastair Lee Bitsóí is an award-winning journalist from Naschitti, Navajo Nation, New Mexico. He specializes in the intersections of the environment, health and science. -
Alex (Ching Lam), Ip
Alex Ip is the Editor In Chief of The Xylom, an Atlanta-based nonprofit -
Alex Askew
President ofBCAGlobal, a Mindful Eating Chef, a 2014 Kellogg Racial Equity Fellow, and 2020 Castanea Fellow -
Alexia Leclercq
Alexia Leclercq is a researcher, writer, and grassroots environmental justice organizer -
Ambar Castillo
Ambar Castillo is a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT. Most recently, she was a Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow at Washington city Paper. An alum of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and Boston University, Ambar was a Fulbright India research scholar, StoryCorps intern, and reported at hyperlocal newspapers in the Bronx. -
Amber X. Chen
Amber X. Chen is a freelance journalist based in California -
Amir Sadiq
I am a freelance writer, researcher, agriculturalist, and trained rural sociologist. I report and write on environment and culture issues in Africa. -
Anjan Sundaram
Anjan Sundaram is an Indian author, journalist, academic, and television presenter. He is the author of three award-winning memoirs of journalism, Stringer, Bad News and Breakup -
Annette Lin
Annette Lin is a freelance journalist -
Aydali Campa
Aydali is an award-winning bilingual journalist with experience in multimedia. Based out of Chicago, she covers environmental justice issues in the Midwest for Inside Climate News, where she started as a Roy W. Howard Investigative fellow. -
Ayobami Adedinni
Ayobami is a journalist and founder, based in Nigeria -
Ayurella Horn-Muller
Ayurella Horn-Muller is an award-winning freelance journalist and a correspondent at Climate Central. -
Britny Cordera
Britny Cordera is a published poet, nonfiction writer, and emerging journalist -
Carla Juarez
Carla Juarez (they/them) is driven by work that advocates for racial equity and social justice, especially in creative spheres that intersect with environmental justice. They approach their work through a human-centered focus. They are based in Los Angeles. -
Carlos Berríos Polanco
Carlos is a freelance journalist in Puerto Rico -
Cassandra Garibay
Casssandra is a community engagement editor at the Center for Health Journalism who helps journalists across California find innovative ways to reach and center the needs of communities they serve. Cassandra previously reported in the Central San Joaquin Valley and San Luis Obispo, covering health, housing, climate and breaking news. -
Chad Small
Chad Small is a freelance journalist, and PhD student in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. His research interests focus on the impacts and dynamics of severe precipitation events in a changing climate. Chad’s journalist work – frequently centering on environmental justice, science policy, and potential responses to climate change – has been featured in Grist, Next city, Gothamist, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. -
Chia-Yi Hou
Chia-Yi is a freelance writer and science journalist who reports about health and life sciences -
Chris Trinh
Chris Trinh is a Vietnamese-American photojournalist and data analyst -
Christian von Preysing
Christian is an environmental journalist and wildlife filmmaker based on the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, TX. As a Latino, Spanish-speaking journalist, he’s covered issues on both sides of the border for nearly a decade. In addition to his work as a television journalist, Christian is involved in freelance wildlife documentary productions. -
Christina Colón
Christina Colón is associate editor of Sojourners magazine -
Deneen Brown
DeNeen L. Brown has been a writer at The Washington Post for more than 35 years. -
Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists. Co-Author & Photographer of “Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock (2015),” and “The Puffin Plan: Restoring Seabirds to Egg Rock and Beyond (2020).” Pulitzer finalist, 2021 Scripps Howard Opinion Writing winner and 13-time award winner from the National Association of Black Journalists. -
Dharna Noor
Dharna is a climate writer at The Boston Globe -
Dorany Pineda
Since joining the newsroom -
Drew Costley
Drew Costley is a reporter, editor, photographer and videographer based in Northern Virginia -
Drue Slatter
Drue is a Fijian climate activist and communications specialist -
Ebony Joseph
I’m new to the world of freelancing. I was previously a political producer for PBS NewsHour and features producer for The TODAY Show. As a Florida native, I’m very familiar with our diverse and fragile ecosystems and would love to report on them. -
Elham Shabahat
Elham is a freelance writer and researcher -
Evlondo Cooper
Evlondo Cooper, a native New Orleanian, is a senior writer for Media Matters for America’s Climate and Energy Program, where he tracks a wide array of conservative and mainstream media coverage of climate and energy issues and identifies false and misleading media narratives that could undermine progress on climate and energy issues. -
Ezra David Romero
Ezra covers water in the Bay Area -
Farai Shawn Matiashe
Farai Shawn Matiashe is a journalist based in Mutare who writes for The Economist, CNN International, Aljazeera, Thomson Reuters Foundation, New Lines and The Africa Report. -
Feini Yin
I’m a freelance science and environment reporter who now mostly does communications with fisheries and seafood organizations. I’m very excited to support journalists and newsrooms on fisheries stories, particularly as they relate to racial and economic justice. I work with the North American Marine Alliance (namanet.org), a seafood justice organization that serves small- and medium-scale, community-based fishermen and fishing communities; Fishadelphia (fishadelphia.com), a community supported fishery in Philly, and the Local Catch Network (localcatch.org), a knowledge and innovation incubator for local and regional seafood systems in North America. -
Felix Poon
Felix Poon is an audio producer with a passion for deeply personal narrative storytelling -
Francisco Martínezcuello
Francisco Martínezcuello is a second-year student at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism -
George Kevin Jordan
I am a freelance writer based in DC. I have written and edited articles about transit equity and how it’s connected with climate change. I cover how transit and active transportation can help mitigate climate change. I am hoping to write more features that help marginalized better understand climate change and environmental justice issues in their communities. -
Gladstone Taylor
Gladstone is an author and journalist based in Jamaica -
Greta Shum
I study the way the land surface interacts with the atmosphere using climate models. I’m especially interested in how the relationship between carbon, water, and energy fluxes change in different climates – including future climate as well as exo-climates. -
Gulnaz Khan
Gulnaz Khan is the climate editor at TED Talks and a former editor at National Geographic -
Gunjan Nanda
A tenacious eco-communicator, born and brought up in the lap of nature. -
Halle Parker
Halle is an environment reporter for New Orleans Public Radio -
Hamza Badamasi
I am freelance environmental journalist and researcher with over five years experience in environmental journalism and more than eight years experience in climate change and pollution research. I am the editor of the EcoNewsNigeria blog and the founder of Climate Change and Environmental Rights Awareness (CCERA). -
Harsha Vadlamani
Harsha Vadlamani is an independent photojournalist and filmmaker whose work explores the many inequalities that influence migration, health and the environment, with a particular focus on rural and indigenous communities across India. His work has been widely published, including National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Monocle, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, GEO, Le Monde, Financial Times Magazine, Rest of World, CNN, BBC and Scientific American, among others. He is the recipient of Amnesty International’s Media Award for Photojournalism in 2022 and a National Geographic Society grantee. -
Iris Crawford
Iris Crawford is a climate journalist and science communicator -
Jamie Jiang
Jamie covers wildfires and wildfire survivors in Northern California. -
Jane Hu
Jane is a journalist based in Seattle -
Jason Dinh
I am a Ph.D.-trained-biologist-turned journalist. I tell stories that pique curiosity about the natural world and a galvanize a desire to protect it. -
Jesenia De Moya Correa
Jesenia De Moya Correa is a Dominican American award-winning journalist -
Jessian Choy
You might know Jessian Choy as that person in 2020 that mailed her menstrual underwear to Professor Graham Peaslee who found toxic, non-degradable PFAS in it that ends in our water. In 2023, Thinx announced that it settled a class-action lawsuit, the first class action lawsuit to allege deceptive marketing on PFAS in consumer products. You might also know her as that person that researched and worked on fun and draconian tricks for a happy, equitable, green world since 1999 through public speaking, journalism, advocacy, policymaking, fundraising, marketing, trauma-informed leadership, and even fun and utopian “trips” to be happy, equitable, green, or vegan through evidence-based hypnotherapy comedy-tations and reiki energy work. By day, she writes for Sierra magazine’s Ask Ms. Green column and videos, and is a guest on Sierra’s podcasts. -
Jireh Deng
Jireh is a poet and journalist -
Jishnu Nair
Jishnu reports on hyperlocal issues in and around Houston -
Jordan Gass-Pooré
Jordan Gass-Pooré is an award-winning podcast producer and investigative journalist -
June Kim
I’m a climate reporter passionate about bringing data-driven stories to life. -
Justin Worland
I have covered the intersection of politics, policy and society at TIME since 2015. I served as a founding steering committee member of the Uproot Project. -
Kaanchi Chopra
Kaanchi Chopra is a designer, writer and organizer working at the intersection of climate justice and labor rights in the fashion industry. -
Katherine Cheng
Katherine Cheng is a Chinese-Canadian freelance documentary photographer and videojournalist -
Kehinde Ogunyale
Kehinde Ogunyale is a climate and data investigative journalist based in Nigeria. He tells stories about climate’s impact on indigenous communities and also uses data visualization and infographics to tell stories. He was a fellow with Climate Tracker and was nominated for the 2020 African check awards (student category) -
Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson
Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson is a Pacific Islander journalist with over 20 years experience -
Laura Lopez Gonzalez
Laura López González is a Chicana health and science writer/editor with 15 years of experience -
Laura Marina Boria
Laura is a bilingual audio producer and editor -
Lauren J. Young
Lauren J. Young is a science journalist, editor, and multimedia producer in New York City -
Learnmore Nyoni
Learnmore Nyoni is a Zimbabwean Black journalist & documentary filmmaker -
Leigh D’Angelo
I’m a former TV reporter (WVUE, WSYR, and One Africa TV) with a master’s degree in crisis communications and homeland security. I led content strategy for NASA’s web modernization team, taught journalism at Tulane University, and now I lead all external and internal communications for a company with the potential to immediately change the decarbonization landscape for hard-to-abate industries (categories like asphalt, steel, cement, and petrochemicals…this sector accounts for about 30% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions). -
Lindsey Botts
Lindsey Botts has always had a passion for wildlife and community outreach. He got interested in journalism while earning his undergraduate degree in communications at the Fashion Institute of Technology. After completing internships at several magazines, he attended grad school at Central Saint Martin’s University of the Arts London, where he got his master’s degree in journalism. -
Liuan Huska
Liuan covers the intersection of earth, body, and spirit. -
Lucia Priselac
Lucia is the Director of The Uproot Project -
Ludwig O. Federigan
Ludwig O. Federigan is a writer, communicator, and researcher on environmental issues, climate change, disaster risk, resilience and sustainability. -
Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz
Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz uses science and storytelling to understand and bring visibility to Puerto Rico’s food system’s issues -
Lujain Al-Saleh
Lujain is an environmental advocate and freelance journalist -
Mahmud Mohammed-Nurudeen
Mahmud Mohammed-Nurudeen is a Development and independent award-winning Journalist with JoyNews TV/Joy FM/myjoyonline.com, photographer/videographer, and Agric consultant, with experience that includes broadcast and print journalism, farming, Climate Change, Sanitation, Health, Technology & Food Security. To keep his journalism skills top-notch, M²-Nurudeen also works as a freelance writer/videographer/photographer for international media houses on science and general issues. -
Maria Paula Rubiano A.
Maria Paula Rubiano A. is a science and environmental journalist with a focus on sustainability, food sovereignty, etc. -
Mark Lannaman
Mark is a multimedia professional & environmental scientist with a focus on equity and the environment in the Americas, and was a fellow for the Society of Environmental Journalists Conference in 2021. He is pursuing his M.S. in Environmental Engineering, with previous M.S. degrees in Sustainable Energy and Global Media & Cultures. -
Marla Matime
Marla, is the Owner/Chief Artist and Consultant for MAR.M Artistry & Consulting that provides communications and marketing consulting services along with creative tasks such as writing, vocal, and editorial services. She is the owner/founder of The MAR.M Agency LLC, an advertising and creative agency, located in Downtown Riverside, California, and is part owner of the Riverside Studios Creative Group, who serves small to corporate clients with film, editing, and other creative projects. Marla is also the creator and producer of The MetaSpiritualist, a spirituality and religion podcast. -
Matt Scott
Matt Scott (he/him) is the Director of Storytelling & Engagement at Project Drawdown, the global nonprofit climate solutions resource. He’s the creator and host of Drawdown’s Neighborhood, a climate solutions short documentary series inviting communities to discover solutions and take action. In his career, he has reached hundreds of millions through impact storytelling and engagement initiatives with NASA, Nike, USAID, the Australian Government, the White House, and others. -
Maureen Mitra
Maureen is an environmental journalist at Earth Island Journal -
Maya L. Kapoor
Maya L. Kapoor is an award-winning science writer -
Maya Richard-Craven
Maya is an editorial fellow with the National Audubon Society -
Michelle Dang
Michelle Dang is a producer at the podcast Science Vs from Gimlet Media/Spotify -
Monica Samayoa
Monica is an award-winning journalist at Oregon Public Broadcasting -
Najifa Farhat
I’m an environmental journalist from Bangladesh. Right now pursuing a master’s in Environment and Natural Resource Journalism at the University of Montana. -
Natasha Vizcarra
Natasha is a freelance science writer and editor -
Naveena Sadasivam
I’m an investigative journalist at Grist writing about the oil and gas industry and climate change. I previously worked at the Texas Observer, Inside Climate News, and ProPublica. I live in Oakland, California. -
Neeta Satam
I am an independent photographer, environmental scientist, and National Geographic Explorer based in Mumbai, India, and Saint Louis, Mo. My work explores the themes of cultural assimilation, the human condition, and the environment through photography. My work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, Le Monde, NPR, Bloomberg News, ESPN, The Undefeated, Audubon Magazine, The Telegraph, The Financial Times -
Nimisha Agarwal
Nimisha is a trek leader-turned reporter -
Nithin Coca
Nithin Coca is a freelance reporter covering Asia and the US -
Noella Williams
hi! i’m an assistant editor at apartment therapy and freelance writer covering black culture, queer identity, pop culture, music, and environmental injustice. words in npr, healthline, scalawag, and more. -
Paige Curtis
Paige Curtis is a Boston-based writer covering the intersection of climate, arts, and culture -
Pamela EA (Elizarrarás Acitores)
Pamela EA is a documentary photographer and climate justice organizer focused on gender equality. -
Paola Rosa-Aquino
Paola is a Brooklyn-based reporter covering science, climate, and space -
Purbita Saha
Purbita is a web and magazine editor/journalist -
Quratulain Tejani
Quratulain is a freelance journalist based in New York -
Rachel Ramirez
Rachel Ramirez is a climate writer with CNN, covering climate science and environmental justice -
Ramesh Bhushal
Ramesh Bhushal is the Nepal Editor for www.thethirdpole.net —a global award-winning multilingual news website in South Asia and also manages a global network of environmental journalists— Internews’ Earth Journalism Network in the region. Bhushal started his journalism career as producer/host for ‘Ujyaalo Radio Network’ in 2007 and in 2009 joined the largest English newspaper in Nepal, The Himalayan Times as an environment correspondent. He has also worked for The BBC Nepali as a science correspondent. -
Raquel Maria Dillon
I’ve covered features and breaking news through audio, video and text as a staff reporter for local, regional and global newsrooms throughout my zig-zag career. I was trained at the AP and at public radio stations, but also worked at a digital video startup and as a camerawoman in local TV. I’m here because after a decade as a GA, I want to redefine myself as a climate/science/health/environment reporter and provide mentoring to a new generation of reporters. -
REBECCA ROOT
Rebecca Root is a multimedia journalist based in Bangkok but reporting globally. She covers humanitarian aid, human rights, global health, development and climate change, among other things. Her work has featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The New Humanitarian, Devex, and others. Rebecca is originally from the UK and received a First Class Honours in journalism from NCTJ-accredited Glasgow Caledonian University. -
Richa Syal
Richa Syal is an investigative journalist reporting on environmental exploitation -
Rico Moore
Rico writes news reports and longform stories -
Roxanne Scott
Roxanne Scott is a reporter, audio producer and writer in Queens, NY. Her reporting focuses on immigrant communities and climate. One of her joys is turning data into a colorful bar graph. -
Ruxandra Guidi
Ruxandra is an experienced reporter and assistant professor -
Samuel Ajala
Samuel Ajala is a seasoned data and development journalist -
Sarah Belle Lin
Sarah Belle Lin is a freelance journalist reporting on the nexus of in/justice, sociocultural movements, accountability and solutions -
Sergio Castellanos
Sergio Castellanos is an assistant professor at UT Austin’s Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Department, where he leads the RESET (Rapid, Equitable & Sustainable Energy Transitions) Lab, analyzing just decarbonization pathways for emerging economies, data-driven sustainable transportation approaches, and equitable local energy transitions. With collaborators, his interdisciplinary projects have been awarded international prizes (United Nations’ Data for Climate Action Challenge), won national competitions (México), and gathered media attention (Forbes, Greentech Media). Prior to UT Austin, he worked as a researcher at UC Berkeley leading bi-national (US-Mexico) projects, helping to bridge the clean energy technology gap between these two countries. Sergio holds an Engineering Ph.D. from MIT. -
Shamsuddin Illius
Shamsuddin Illius is a Bangladesh-based journalist specialising in climate change and environmental issues, Rohingya refugees, and migration. He has been working as the Bureau Chief Chittagong at The Business Standard, Bangladesh’s largest business daily. He also contributes to Agence France-Presse (AFP) as a stringer and The Third Pole. -
Shantal Riley
Shantal is an award-winning, freelance health and science writer. -
Siri Chilukuri
Siri is a freelance journalist bassed in Chicago -
Sonia Waraich
I’ve been working as a journalist covering primarily local government in California for the past five years. That has included a lot of coverage of wildfires, drought, traditional ecological knowledge and renewable energy, among other climate topics. -
Sophia Piña-McMahon
Sophia is a freelance photographer, writer, and editor covering stories at the nexus of food, culture, and the environment. She’s passionate about promoting inclusive, food-based solutions to climate change and social injustice, with recent emphasis on local/regional foodways and agroecology. -
Spoorthy Raman
Spoorthy Raman is a Toronto-based science journalist with over five years of experience in sciene writing and editing -
Stephanie García
Bilingual freelance journalist, crafting stories in English and Spanish through audio, data, video, and the written word. Have published with The Independent, PBS NewsHour, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, AP, USA Today and The Ground Truth Project. Experience reporting on environmental health disparities, urban farming, and climate migration. -
Tanvi Dutta Gupta
I study biology and earth systems at Stanford University. I care deeply about storytelling and environmental justice, particularly in highlighting Global South stories. -
Taylor Moore
Taylor Moore is a freelance journalist in Chicago who writes about environmental justice, urban development, and politics -
Thandi Lyew
Thandi Lyew holds a B.A. in Psychology from Florida International University, with minors in Communication Science and Disorders and Behavior Analysis, as well as a graduate certificate in Cognitive Neuroscience. She also has an M.A. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania. Thandi Lyew’s research investigates the effects of message framing on environmental decisions and health behavior. -
THOMAS MANGLONA
Thomas Manglona II is a journalist from Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, with experience in local, regional, and national newsrooms. He is the Chief Regional Correspondent for KUAM News based on Saipan covering Micronesia and the Pacific. Thomas received an M.A. in Journalism at Stanford University as a Harry S. Truman Scholar. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of California at Berkeley where he earned his B.A. in Media Studies with High Distinction in 2020. He is a 2016 Gates Millennium Scholar. -
Tristan Navera
Tristan Navera covers sustainable building materials and design -
Uchenna Igwe
Uchenna Igwe reports development issues at the intersection of climate change, health and social justice. -
Ugochi Anyaka Oluigbo
From erosions, flooding, desertification in Nigeria, oil pollution in Ogoni, and depleted African rain forest to frozen Lapland, Finland, Ugochi has visited rugged terrains to tell environmental stories. She is a 2022 Covering Climate Now Award Winner. -
Victoria Abou-Ghalioum
I am an environmental justice scholar interested in the intersections between race, place, and environmental movement activism and community organizing. My interests include land struggles in urban and rural geographies, & critical environmental justice sociology. I am interested in writing on these topics from a Midwestern regional point of view that connects to a national and international narrative about environmentalism. -
Victoria Goldiee
I’m a freelance writer with a penchant for headlining stories from underrepresented communities. -
Vivek Shandas
Vivek Shandas is a Professor of Climate Transformation and Director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab at Portland State University -
Wufei Yu
Wufei Yu is a bilingual journalist based in New Mexico and about to move back to the Greater China area -
Yessenia Funes
Yessenia Funes is an environmental journalist dedicated to covering climate and environmental justice. -
Yondy Agosto
I’m a non-binary Puerto Rican journalists that is interested in environmental, cultural and community topics. -
Youmna Abdallah
Lebanese Environmental Journalist and Researcher focusing on climate change, environmental and social stories in Lebanon and the Middle-East. -
Yvette Cabrera
Yvette Cabrera is a senior reporter at The Center for Public Integrity covering inequality in economic and social well-being. -
Zayna Syed
Zayna Syed is a Pulliam environment fellow at the Arizona Republic, where she writes about the climate crisis, water management, etc -
Zeina Mohammed
Zeina is a health and medicine reporter for the Boston Globe