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2019 — Present
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In 2016, North Cove, Washington was losing coastline faster than almost anywhere in the world. When the community was told there was no money to save it, they started looking for other solutions. A StoryMap about the decade that followed, featuring neighbors, community-led activist organizations, the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe, and UW research partnerships building local solutions backed by both science and lived experience.
What does it look like to carry climate work forward in a time when external resources and support opportunities are shrinking? A multimedia report making the case that trust and innovation are not abstract concepts but daily practices, built through dialogue, humility, and shared purpose. Collaboration is how possibility becomes progress.
A community profile about Seattle's South Park neighborhood, the Duwamish Valley Sustainability Association, and what it looks like when a neighborhood doesn't just receive green infrastructure but owns it, operates it, and builds healthier relationships with what we consume and what we leave behind in the process.
Seven years of evolving from loosely affiliated centers to a network that blurs the lines between research and action. EarthLab's first impact report, written as a way-marker rather than a trophy case: each data point treated as the entryway into its own story, each story a reflection of the community partners, Tribes, students, and faculty who make the work possible.
Nine UW students step into UN delegate roles alongside 120 peers from 13 countries, and come back with something harder to quantify than policy knowledge: a reason to believe that global climate change problems are solvable.
Black women are 243% more likely to die from pregnancy-linked complications, one of the widest racial disparities in women's health. A reported feature as told by Nakeenya Wilson, former director of Black Mamas ATX, that traces the structural roots of that gap and the organizations creating tangible change.
When Dr. Rowena Fong introduces herself to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, she doesn't lead with her credentials. She introduces herself as someone's daughter. A case study on what cultural humility looks like in practice, and what a five-year study on adoption and guardianship had to unlearn before it could earn the community's trust.
A Q&A that surfaces the gap between what a practitioner knows about systems and structures, and what they're able to do about it at the level of an individual case. Traced through a family who nearly lost their child over an unpaid utility bill, and the 15-minute phone call that raises show rates to 80%.
A plain black backpack, chosen so it looks like something any other kid could have. A profile of Hunter and Day 1 Bags, and the simple, radical premise behind both: that foster kids deserve to feel normal, because they are, and because normalcy is foundational to stability.
Open to writing collaborations, editorial partnerships, and communications projects with research institutions, nonprofits, and organizations doing work that deserves a better story than it's currently getting.