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.