Thirteen collegiate and post-collegiate journalists have joined Inside Climate News as reporting fellows this summer.
ICN’s summer 2026 fellowship class, its largest to date, draws from current undergraduates, graduate students and recent graduates based in California, New York, the District of Columbia, Montana, Colorado, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Florida. The program is designed to hone participants’ writing and reporting skills, deepen their expertise in a variety of topics related to climate change and the environment and help build a pipeline of talent to serve the environmental media ecosystem.
“We have an incredible incoming class of summer fellows from America’s best universities, and we’re taking advantage of their unique talents by plugging them into some of our highest-profile reporting on overseas mining, China’s growing global climate leadership, environmental justice in Florida, wetlands in New York state and conservation and public lands management in the Mountain West,” said Vernon Loeb, ICN’s executive editor.
More than 90 fellows have participated in ICN’s fellowship program since it launched in 2020. The 2026 summer class includes:
Claire Barber, Stanford University
Leana Carbonez, Columbia University
Gabriel Matias Castilho, Northwestern University
Mosabber Hossain, University of Montana
Andrew Liu, Columbia University
Maya McDaniel, Swarthmore College
Andrés Muedano, Harvard College
Daniel Perrin, Swarthmore College
Nina Sablan, Swarthmore College
Madeline Shaw, New York University
Avril Silva, New York University
Ajani Stella, Georgetown University
Kate Waxman, Columbia University
ICN’s fellowship program is made possible with support from the Clif Family Foundation, Outrider, Institute for Nonprofit News, the Dow Jones News Fund and the fellows’ universities. Visit this page to learn more about ICN’s fellowships.
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