International Rainforest Journalism Fund

Umair Irfan covers climate change, energy, and the environment for Vox. He is also a contributor to Science Friday. Before joining Vox, Umair was a reporter for Climatewire at E&E News in Washington...

Eliza Barclay oversees Vox.com's health, science, energy, and environment coverage. She was formerly a reporter and editor at NPR, and most recently edited the food blog, The Salt. As editor of The...

Jesse Hyde is a writer based in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is the In Depth editor for the Deseret News. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, Slate, Men's Journal and BuzzFeed.

Alexander Zaitchik is a freelancer who has worked throughout the U.S., Eastern Europe, Russia, South Asia, and Latin America, where he has focused on social conflicts in the rainforests of Peru...

Benjamin von Brackel (*1982) is a freelance journalist in Berlin. He writes for main newspapers in Germany like Süddeutsche Zeitung or Frankfurter Rundschau as well as for environmental magazines like...

Sebastián Liste (Spain, 1985) is an award-winning documentary photographer and sociologist immersed and devoted to document the profound cultural changes and contemporary issues in Latin America and...

Matt Sandy is a Brazil-based journalist who tells enduring human stories as a lens to understand a changing world. He has reported from more than 20 countries, including on endangered tribes in the...

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham is a photographer working on critical flashpoints of health, society, and conflict. His work has been awarded the Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism 2024...

Disha Shetty is an independent science journalist based in India. She mainly writes on public health, climate change, and the environment, with a focus on gender. Her work has appeared in Forbes...

Jill Langlois is an independent journalist based in São Paulo, Brazil. She has been freelancing from the largest city in the Western Hemisphere since 2010, writing and reporting for publications...

Jacopo Ottaviani works as chief data officer with Code for Africa and was an International Center for Journalists Knight Fellow in 2016-19. He is busy building teams of developers, designers, and...

Tristan McConnell is a writer and foreign correspondent living in Nairobi, Kenya. His long-form stories have appeared in GQ, Harper's, New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, London...