Melba Newsome

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Melba Newsome is an award-winning independent journalist with over 20 years of experience contributing investigative education, health, and environmental features to regional and national publications, including Scientific American, Nature, National Geographic, Science News, WIRED, and High Country News. 

She is a two-time Pulitzer Center and 2023 Alicia Patterson fellow.

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