Community narratives on climate. Actionable data for change.
Community narratives on climate. Actionable data for change.
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; Â 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.
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