Fellows & Fellowships

ICN is proud to support the careers of emerging journalists across the country through our fellowship program. Fellows are critical to our reporting efforts, bringing new perspectives and fresh eyes to the work of our newsroom.

Application Open: 2022 Fellowships

To learn more about the fellowship program, and how to apply, please contact us.

2022 Fellows — Fall

Myía Borland

Myía Borland
Howard University
2022

Myía Borland is a senior journalism major attending Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Darreonna Davis

Darreonna Davis
Howard University
2022

Darreonna Davis is a senior journalism major at Howard University and contributor for the Howard University News Service who covers Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas. She is among the inaugural Howard University News Service and Inside Climate News partnership fellows. Previously, Darreonna interned on the breaking news desk at Forbes as an HBCU Scholar and Emma Bowen Foundation fellow.

Delaney Dryfoos

Delaney Dryfoos
New York University
2022

Delaney Dryfoos is a science journalist based in New York City and a fall fellow at Inside Climate News. She is a graduate student at New York University’s Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program, where she also works as the managing editor for Scienceline. She is passionate about reporting on the intersection of health and the environment as well as working to make journalism more inclusive of disabled and LGBTQ+ sources and reporters. Previously, she worked in global health research, nonprofit communications and environmental radio show production. She studied biology, global health, policy journalism and media studies at Duke University.

Alexis Durham

Alexis Durham
Morgan State University
2022

Alexis Durham is a recent graduate from Morgan State University with a Bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism. She specializes in video content creating, writing and speaking. Her hobbies include writing music and traveling.

Emma Merchant

Emma Foehringer Merchant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022

Emma Foehringer Merchant is a journalist who has covered environmental issues ranging from disasters to wonky energy regulations to air pollution. She’s reported on the environment and energy for publications including The Boston Globe Magazine, The New Republic, Vice News, and Grist. Most recently, Emma covered clean energy as a staff writer for Greentech Media and helped alums of that organization form a new publication called Canary Media. She’s attending MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing and holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental analysis from Pomona College, where she lived through a California drought while studying how climate change is impacting the state’s environment and people.

Camryn Garza

Camryn Garza
University of Texas at Austin
2022

Camryn Garza is a fourth-year journalism student at the University of Texas at Austin specializing in science communication. Her previous work can be seen at the Daily Dot.

Autumn Jones

Autumn Jones
University of Texas at Austin
2022

Autumn Jones is a multimedia journalist and fellow at Inside Climate News. She is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin where she studies Journalism and Science Communications. Aside from writing, Jones is a photojournalist and has worked as a freelance photographer for over seven years. She has a passion for climate change, environmental justice, space and public health. She has received awards for her journalistic work ranging from the Dallas Morning News to the Emmys. When she isn’t covering science, she can be found serving as the communications contractor for the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Educational Foundation non-profit in her home city of Dallas.

Hannah Loss

Hannah Loss
New York University
2022

Hannah Loss is a journalist based in New York City and Boston with interests in ecology, infrastructure and agriculture. She is a graduate student at New York University’s Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program. Previously, she worked in science documentary and radio production and science conference programming. She studied environmental studies and English at Tufts University.

Myriam Vidal
CUNY
2022

Myriam Vidal Valero is a bilingual journalist from Mexico City. Her work focuses on science, health and the environment, and it has appeared in The New York Times, Science, The Open Notebook, Slate, Medscape, Muy Interesante, Cancer World, ¿Cómo ves?, among others. She is a member of the Mexican Network of Science Journalists where she coordinates the Mentorship Program for Emerging Journalists. In 2019 she received the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. She’s currently based in New York City, where she is working toward an M.A. in Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Alumni

2022 Fellows — Summer

Daelin Brown
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022

Alexis Durham
Morgan State University
2022

Samantha Hurley
University of Georgia
2022

Emma Foehringer Merchant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022

Hannah Loss
New York University
2022

Andrew Onodera
Arizona State University
2022

James Pothen
New York University
2022

Rachel Rodriguez
University of Notre Dame
2022

Grace van Deelen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022

Myriam Vidal
CUNY
2022

2022 Fellows — Spring

Leah Campbell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022

Ariel Gans
Northwestern University
2022

Julie Margolin
Baruch College
2022

Quratulain Tejani
New York University
2022

2021 Fellows

Tigist Ashaka
Hampton University
2021

Daelin Brown
Hampton University
2021

Haley Dunleavy
American Association for the Advancement of Science
2021

Delger Erdenesanaa
New York University
2021

Brahmjot Kaur
The City College of New York
2021

Stacy Kim
Baruch College
2021

Katie Livingstone
Washington Program of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
2021

Anne Marshall-Chalmers
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
2021

Cela Migan
University of Missouri-Columbia
2021

Sam Palca
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
2021

Elena Shao
Stanford University
2021

2020 Fellows

Ilana Cohen
Harvard University
2020

Julia Kane
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
2020

Maddie Kornfeld
Newmark School of Journalism
2020

Jonathan Moens
New York University
2020

Lili Pike
New York University Journalism Institute
2020

Nicole Pollack
Middlebury College
2020

Leto Sapunar
New York University
2020

Abby Weiss
Syracuse University
2020