2024 Metcalf Fellows

Raphael Vincent Bosano is a science correspondent of ABS-CBN News in Manila, Philippines. He covers critical topics on the environment, climate change, natural disasters and their consequential effects on communities. Prior to his role as environment and science correspondent, Raphael focused on public health and disease outbreaks. His longest running coverage so far was the COVID-19 pandemic where the Philippines imposed one of the longest lockdowns and mask mandates throughout the world. Bosano's comprehensive exposure to and understanding of these intricate issues provided a solid foundation for his transition into the realm of environmental journalism.

Colleen Cronin is an ecoRI News reporter covering rural communities, transportation, and other environmental issues in Rhode Island as a Report for America corps member. She previously worked as a digital producer and metro correspondent at The Boston Globe. A Cape Codder originally, Cronin also worked for The Cape Cod Times and the Provincetown Independent in college, but her journalism career started at The Brown Daily Herald, where she covered local politics, the college admissions scandal, and the Brown’s response to COVID-19.

Bennet Goldstein reports on water, agriculture, chemical contamination and environmental justice as Wisconsin Watch’s Report for America representative on the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a collaborative reporting network. He spent much of his career at daily newspapers in Iowa, including the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, where he was an enterprise and general assignment reporter. Later, he served on the breaking news team at the Omaha World Herald in Nebraska. Bennet’s work has garnered national and statewide recognitions from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, the Milwaukee Press Club, the Iowa Newspaper Association and Associated Press Media Editors. Goldstein studied psychology at Washington University in St. Louis and earned a master’s degree in history of science, medicine and technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Katie Hunt is a London-based science journalist at CNN, where she has worked since 2013. She is fascinated by the science behind everything and writes on a wide range of scientific topics including biodiversity, human evolution and climate change. Hunt has worked for several international news organizations including Reuters and the BBC and spent a large part of her journalism career in Asia before relocating to London in 2019.

Amanda Magnani is an independent Brazilian journalist and photographer, a Pulitzer Center Rainforest grantee and OptOut News Climate Editor. Her work is mostly focused on climate justice, migration and socio environmental issues. Upon finishing her Master's degree in journalism, media and globalization at Charles University, she moved back to Brazil to tell the stories that really matter to her. In 2023, Magnani was awarded Climate Tracker’s Climate Justice Fellowship to cover COP 28, and in 2022 she wrote the winning piece of the Training on Constructive Narrative Framing by the International Service for Human Rights. Magnani's work is featured on Mongabay, The New Humanitarian, National Geographic and al Jazeera, among others.

Luna Reyna is a writer and broadcaster whose work has centered the voices of the systematically excluded in service of liberation and advancing justice. Before coming to Underscore News and ICT as the Seattle-based Northwest Bureau Chief, Luna was Crosscut’s Indigenous Affairs Reporter, and her work has appeared in the South Seattle Emerald, Prism Reports, Talk Poverty and more. Reyna is proud of her Little Shell Chippewa heritage and is passionate about reporting that sheds light on colonial white supremacist systems of power.

Marlowe Starling is a freelance environmental journalist who reports on climate, conservation, and culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Sierra Magazine, Mongabay, PBS, the Miami Herald, and more. Marlowe earned a master’s degree from NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a wildlife ecology minor from the University of Florida. She has received fellowships from The Safina Center, the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, the Florida Climate Institute, and the Pulitzer Center. Starling grew up in Miami, Florida, where she relishes a serene paddle through the mangrove forests.

Miranda Willson is a reporter for E&E News, where she focuses on all things water: policy, politics, regulations and environmental challenges. She previously covered energy companies and regulations and got her start in journalism at local newspapers. She was a 2023 environmental media fellow at Vermont Law and Graduate School, and the 2018 rookie reporter of the year for small newspapers in New England. Raised in suburban New York, Willson is a graduate of Tufts University and now lives in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Wolfe grew up in Baltimore and spent summers swimming in the Chesapeake Bay. Foraging for crayfish and blue crab and searching for oysters and seashells is a possibility he wants for his family and others for years to come. In his work, he examines how our ecosystems are affected by climate change and geopolitics, with a focus on affected communities. He uses remotely sensed data, mapping, and visualizations to connect readers to the changing world around them. As a Pulitzer Center fellow, he investigated the mysterious die-off of gray whales along the Pacific Coast and its connection to the warming waters in the arctic. Currently Wolfe works for the Washington Post as a graphics reporter based out of New York City. His past includes CNN, Quartz, the Urban Institute and the technology companies Tesla and Planet.

Yfat Yossifor is an award-winning visual journalist with KERA North Texas covering general assignments through still photography and video. On the weekends, they are out hiking and backpacking. That love for nature inspires them to dig into environmental issues and pursue further learning in scientific reporting.