I’m a journalist in the American West. I was a 2014-15 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. I’m also an IJNR and Metcalf alum. Originally from Sacramento, I earned degrees from a couple top-notch universities. I’ve done both the staff job and freelance thing, and my writing has appeared nationally in Newsweek, The Guardian, High Country News, YES! Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Earth Island Journal, Ensia and Civil Eats. A glossy magazine once named me one of the 100 most powerful and influential people in the city where I live. I was like, “Wait, what?”