Center for Environmental Journalism

Current Fellows

2007-2008 Academic Year

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock is the Fairbanks reporter for the Alaska Public Radio Network where she covers issues affecting Interior Alaska. She also files stories for national outlets including "The Health Show" and National Public Radio. Hitchcock has been a reporter, producer and on-air host for radio programs throughout Alaska, including the internationally broadcast "Independent Native News." She has been recognized several times by the Alaska Press Club for her work in radio and was awarded grand prize for non-fiction in the 2005 Anchorage Daily News Writing Contest. Hitchcock earned a bachelor's degree in humanities from Sheldon Jackson College, Alaska. For her fellowship project, she plans to document the impact of development on Native communities in the Arctic. Hitchcock can be reached at bonnie-sue.hitchcock@colorado.edu.

Sean Markey
Sean Markey is a freelance journalist and photographer based on the South Island of New Zealand. His work has run in the New York Times Special Features Syndicate, National Geographic Magazine, the Washington Post, Discover Magazine and High Country News. Before moving to New Zealand, Markey was a senior writer-editor for National Geographic News and prior to that was a Web producer at National Geographic.com. Markey earned a bachelor's degree in English writing from St. Lawrence University and continued his education with classes from the master's-level writing program at Johns Hopkins University. Markey will use his time at CU to write a series of magazine articles examining how people's daily choices affect larger environmental issues such as carbon emissions. Markey can be reached at sean.markey@colorado.edu.

Todd Neff
Todd Neff is the science and environment reporter at the Boulder Daily Camera where he covers everything from climate change and air quality to Nobel Prize winners. Before moving to the Camera, Neff covered business and technology as a freelancer and a reporter for Front Range TechBiz. Neff also spent several years as a business consultant in Germany and Japan. He has been recognized for his work by the Colorado Associate Press Editors and Reporters Association, the Society of Professional Journalists and the American City Business Journals. Neff holds a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in law and diplomacy from Tufts University's Fletcher School. He will begin work on a book about the increasing need for renewable energy technologies and the dearth of funding for scientists who research those technologies. Neff can be reached at todd.neff@colorado.edu.

Joseph Sorrentino
Joseph Sorrentino is the managing editor of the Orange County Reporter, San Diego Commerce and Riverside Business Journal in his hometown of Los Angeles. He is also a contributing writer for the California Real Estate Journal. He has written for a number of Los Angeles publications including Los Angeles Alternative Press and California Law Business. He has covered topics including contaminated industrial "brownfields" in Los Angeles and the growing number of women and children on the city's Skid Row. He has a bachelor's degree in creative writing from the University of California Riverside. For his professional project, Sorrentino will write a series of newspaper articles on environmental justice issues in Southeast L.A. Sorrentino can be reached at joseph.sorrentino@colorado.edu.

Florence Williams
Florence Williams is a freelance writer and a contributing editor for Outside Magazine. She has sold pieces to The New York Times, Wired, Mother Jones, The New Republic, Los Angeles Times and other publications. She is also a board member for High Country News where she worked as a staff writer. Her work has focused on topics she feels are under-reported including land-use planning, toxins, wind power and farm bills. She has earned awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and other organizations. Williams has a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Montana. She plans to write a magazine article about environmental toxins and their effect on reproductive and breast cancers. Williams can be reached at florence.williams@colorado.edu.