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Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

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Influenced by my childhood days of reading Ranger Rick, I've always wanted to work with and write about nature. Growing up in a beach cottage in a coastal town, I was introduced to the power of the environment early on and I view climate change through a personal lens, which shapes all of my work.

I strive to highlight stories about environmental justice, gender, and race as they pertain to environmental issues. I believe race and gender are at the center of every environmental issue, and thus they should be at the center of all environmental journalism.

Current life goal: to visit every U.S. National Park. Current professional goal: to be an environmental journalist, policymaker, researcher, and Saturday Night Live writer all at once. I'll let you know how it goes.

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Sandcastles and the seawall

Growing up in a beach house in a town that comes alive in the summer was paradise. But it will soon be paradise submerged. Keep reading

Sandcastles and the seawall

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Sandcastles and the seawall
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

Tipping the balance for fisheries on the small scale
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

A fisherman throws a net in the River Tista in Bangladesh
13 grocery stores: The Navajo Nation is a food desert
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

A strip of businesses including chain restaurants like McDonalds in Kayenta, AZ
CFS46 reflections: Matilda Kreider
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

Matilda Kreider next to FAO sign
Eugenics in the service of sustainability
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

In defense of intrinsic value
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

ANWR intrinsic value
Farmworker freedom and the agricultural reforms we're forgetting
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

Immokalee worker holding a bucket
Barriers to experience: Understanding race in professional environmentalism
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

Woman experiencing the wilderness
Is the world's greenest building in Pittsburgh?
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

Phipps Conservatory welcome center
10 things I learned from #SEJ2017
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

Pittsburgh skyline
Island style ingenuity
Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion plant

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