Sarah Macaraeg is an award-winning writer and data storytelling specialist whose work highlights community-driven solutions to 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 Reporting in the Public Interest; 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; revealed disparities in exposure to life-threatening extreme heat and toxic air pollution; spurred consumer protections in a low-income community being charged exorbitant water utility rates; and sparked a hearing on conditions in for-profit immigrant detention centers across New Mexico.