Sena Christian is a journalist in the American West, specializing in agriculture and food systems, ecosystem and land management, conservation, health and development reporting. She has reported from across the U.S., including California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Missouri, Iowa and Washington, D.C. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, The Guardian, Quartz, High Country News, YES! Magazine, Ensia, Civil Eats, Comstock’s, Sacramento Magazine, Sacramento News & Review and elsewhere. She has served on the newsroom staff of newspapers, a newsweekly and a business magazine.

Sena was a 2014-15 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been selected to participate in a Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources expedition, and had been awarded an IJNR reporting fellowship. She is also an alum of a climate change reporting program through the Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting. Originally from Sacramento, California, Sena earned a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree from University of Oregon.