Classes & Stipends
We are providing financial assistance and reporting stipends to UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism students reporting on food systems and environmental issues. We will also be supporting journalism school classes focused on issues related to land use, agricultural and nutritional policy, the food industry, food science, technology and culture, rural and urban farming, agriculture and the environment, food and climate change, global trade and supply chains, consolidation of the food system, and public health as it relates to food and agriculture, and freshwater and marine aquaculture.
Scholarship
Hannah Johansson
Hannah is a journalism masters student ('25) working towards a career in agriculture reporting. Currently, she is a graduate student instructor in the global studies department and is building her investigative journalism toolset through classes like OSINT and "Climate Story Lab: Food, Water and Equity in California." She would like to report on the process of small farmers being removed from their land, shifts in agricultural labor markets in response to globalizing supply chains, farm loans and their potential trappings, and conflicts around dam construction and decommission.
2023 Reporting Grants
Charles Ayitey
Charles Ayitey is an emerging investigative journalist and budding business reporter passionate about telling stories on the intersection of corporate profits, climate justice in Africa -- the Global South, and public health. Charles will be based in New York this Summer, reporting on corporations, climate policy, and emerging markets for Bloomberg. He will graduate from UC Berkeley Journalism in 2024 with a Master's in Multimedia Reporting.
Laura Fitzgerald
Laura Fitzgerald is an audio journalist and graduate student at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She has covered California state politics as a political reporting fellow for CapRadio and reported other stories relating to labor and elections. Her current reporting focuses on money in California's political system, specifically political donations that serve food insecure communities and the state's mechanisms for political influence.
Hana Beach
Hana Beach is a graduate student at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism studying documentary filmmaking and investigative reporting. Hana Beach and Beki San Martin are working on a short documentary and written piece that captures the exploitation, injury, and abuse that underpin the forestry industry in the western United States and the industry's reliance on a vulnerable class of foreign workers. Hana will graduate in 2024.
Beki San Martin
Hana Beach and Beki San Martin are working on a short documentary and written piece that captures the exploitation, injury, and abuse that underpin the forestry industry in the western United States and the industry's reliance on a vulnerable class of foreign workers. Beki will graduate in 2024.