Welcome, Maria Rose!

Welcome, Maria Rose!

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Please say a warm wel­come to our new Coro Fel­low, Maria Rose!

Maria Rose is an aspir­ing envi­ron­men­tal jour­nal­ist, cur­rent­ly work­ing with Tree Pitts­burgh through the Coro Fel­low­ship for Lead­er­ship and Pub­lic Affairs. Through the spring, Maria will sup­port the edu­ca­tion ini­tia­tives that Tree Pitts­burgh is con­duct­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly through help­ing to design an urban forestry sum­mer camp as well as ana­lyz­ing news and aca­d­e­m­ic arti­cles on the ben­e­fits of trees. Two of her main projects will include devel­op­ing a sus­tain­abil­i­ty plan for Tree Pittsburgh’s new cam­pus, and report­ing on tree canopy data and its dis­pro­por­tion­ate scarci­ty in com­mu­ni­ties of col­or. Pri­or to com­ing to Pitts­burgh, Maria spent two and a half years in Chi­ang Mai, Thai­land, work­ing for a small Thai non­prof­it and devel­op­ing pro­grams on child rights and migrant rights. As a writer, Maria intends to pur­sue issues of inter­nal dis­place­ment, state­less­ness, and cli­mate migra­tion, as well as envi­ron­men­tal racism and jus­tice issues, espe­cial­ly as they impact health and social well being.

Maria earned a B.A. in envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence from Vas­sar Col­lege, and was inspired as an eighth grad­er, while watch­ing An Incon­ve­nient Truth, to study the inter­sec­tion of social jus­tice and envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion. Her goal is to use data jour­nal­ism and nar­ra­tive sto­ry­telling to open people’s minds to envi­ron­men­tal issues. She believes that jour­nal­ism that is as com­pas­sion­ate and emo­tion­al­ly cor­rect as it is informed and struc­tured may be the key for con­nect­ing with com­mu­ni­ties who may not pri­or­i­tize envi­ron­men­tal issues. With Tree Pitts­burgh, Maria is excit­ed to learn how envi­ron­men­tal non­prof­its are unique­ly posi­tioned in Pitts­burgh to influ­ence city plan­ning and urban design, and to prac­tice research­ing and writ­ing about envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice issues at a city-wide lev­el. She is a junior board mem­ber with Ven­ture Out­doors, and, if she’s not perus­ing book­stores, you can find her work­ing and climb­ing at Ascend pret­ty much every day.

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