2025 Mental Well-Being Fellow To Visit Westchester Community College

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Nicole J. Caruth, a 2025 Mental Well-Being Reporting Fellow, will visit Westchester Community College on Wednesday, October 22, 2025. She will share her Pulitzer Center-supported project Southern LGBTQ+ Farmers Organize for Mental Health with students and visit WCC’s Intro to Media Writing, Understanding Mass Media, and Speech Communication classes.

In collaboration with GLOW, an organization for LGBTQ+ students and their allies, the Journalism Department will host "Meet the Pros," where Caruth will deliver a talk about her work, followed by a Q&A session. 

Southern LGBTQ+ Farmers Organize for Mental Health examines how the mental health crisis in agriculture intersects with LGBTQ+ identities by profiling LGBTQ+ farmers in the American South who are coming together to support each other, both mentally and emotionally.

Nicole J. Caruth is a freelance health and culture writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background as both a curator and a journalist, Caruth’s reporting is often guided by questions about care and healing. Her writing has been published in ARTnews, Civil Eats, Gastronomica, Hyperallergic, two Phaidon Press volumes, and the anthology Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing.