Melba Newsome

  • Program Coordinator
  • Environmental & Epistemic Justice Initiative at Wake Forest University

Melba Newsome is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades of experience contributing environmental, health, and science reporting to a wide variety of regional and national publications, including Scientific American, Undark, Science News, Sierra, Wired and the Assembly. Newsome is a three time Pulitzer Center grantee, an Alicia Patterson fellow, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative fellow and winner of the 2024 Journalism Award from the Science Communicators of North Carolina.

Newsome currently serves as program coordinator for the Environmental & Epistemic Justice Initiative at Wake Forest University and director of the Summer Institute’s Environmental Journalism fellowship.

Sessions

  • Unequal Burden: How Climate Change Affects Communities Differently

    Where you live often affects the climate experience. This panel examines the asymmetrical climate experience and how race, income, geography, age, and health shape vulnerability and resilience. Through data, storytelling, and lived experience, panelists will explore why frontline communities face greater risk and fewer resources and what equity centered solutions must look like moving forward.

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