Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellow
Mercy Orengo is a feature reporter who has been covering human interest stories in Africa. She has spent close to nine years reporting on science and development for several publications, including scidev.net, a global online magazine that focuses on science and technology. She also worked as a long-form writer for The Standard, the oldest newspaper in Kenya. Her previous work has included features on climate change solutions as a means to reduce intertribal wars among pastoralist communities and research gaps in Africa that are hindering the continent’s participation in climate solutions. She was a 2020 Nieman Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a master’s candidate at Columbia Journalism School in New York.