Sarah Macaraeg is an award-winning journalist and writer whose work connects readers to the oft-overlooked people and places confronting the everyday realities of climate change.

She is the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists/Chicago Headline Club award for Best Reporting on Climate Change; the Sidney Award for outstanding investigative journalism; a Salute to Excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists; and the Restorative Narrative Award from Images and Voices of Hope.

Her career highlights include stories that helped halt plans to build a crude pipeline atop a drinking water aquifer in Memphis; revealed disparities in exposure to life-threatening extreme heat in Chicago;  spurred state action on an Arkansas water company polluting a low-income community; and sparked a hearing on conditions in for-profit immigrant detention centers across New Mexico.