2025 Fellow Profiles
 | Nicole J. Caruth, Richmond, CA Nicole J. Caruth is a freelance journalist who reports at the intersection of food, health, and environmental justice, with a focus on those most affected by systemic inequities. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is currently a mental health reporting fellow at Civil Eats and a reporting fellow with the Pulitzer Center. Her work has appeared in publications such as ARTnews, Gastronomica, Public Art Review, and two Phaidon Press volumes. Before transitioning to journalism, Nicole was a contemporary art curator, managing interpretation at the Brooklyn Museum and serving as the founding editor of Art21 Magazine. She received the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2019. Nicole brings a creative eye to her reporting, illuminating the cultural dimensions within every story. |
 | Artis Curiskis, Brooklyn, NY Artis is a Peabody-nominated reporter and audio producer. His works appeared in Mother Jones, Reveal, PBS, and The Atlantic. |
 | Nina B. Elkadi, Washington, DC / Iowa City, IA Nina B. Elkadi is an investigative reporter for Sentient. Her work explores corporate influence within the agricultural industry, the environmental impacts of factory farming, and how negligence impacts consumers and workers. Her work also appears in National Geographic, Inside Climate News, Civil Eats, High Country News, Ambrook Research, JSTOR Daily, Barn Raiser, and more. She splits her time between Washington D.C. and her hometown of Iowa City. |
 | Caleb Hampton, Davis, CA Caleb Hampton is a journalist from California. He works as an assistant editor at the newspaper Ag Alert, where he covers California agriculture. Growing up in the Central Valley, Caleb learned almost nothing about agriculture. He still knows very little. Caleb’s reporting on immigration and environmental issues has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian and other publications. He has won feature writing awards for stories about the failure of India’s public school system to educate rural students and about a soccer player. He solved the murder of a notorious turkey. Caleb has a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Davis, California. |
 | Jordan Hickey, Springdale, AR Jordan P. Hickey is a Northwest Arkansas-based freelance journalist with work in The Washington Post, Garden & Gun, VQR, Investigate Midwest, Southern Foodways Alliance, Arkansas PBS, Arkansas Advocate, among others. In May 2025, he was named a finalist in profile writing for the James Beard Awards. He's also been named Writer/Journalist of the Year by the Great Plains Journalism Awards (2020); International Regional Magazine Association (2018); and Arkansas Society of Professional Journalists (2016). In 2016, he received the Emerging Writer Award from the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. Clips at: jordanphickey.com |
 | ray levy uyeda, Oakland, CA ray levy uyeda is a poet and reporter based in the Bay Area. ray writes for Prism, a non profit, independent movement newsroom. ray's work has also been published by Civil Eats, Yes! Magazine, Washington Post, Bon Appetit, and Eater, among others. |
 | Miranda Lipton, Brooklyn, NY Miranda is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist whose work seeks to contribute to a more transparent, resilient, community-centric, and healthier food system. She reports on the intersection of agriculture, climate, labor, and policy, with a focus on solutions-oriented storytelling. Her work has appeared in Mother Jones, National Geographic, The Guardian, Modern Farmer, Fast Company, and more. Miranda brings deep curiosity and a commitment to elevating underrepresented voices in food and farming. She is especially interested in how local efforts can spark systemic change. Recent work includes an investigation into the role of black soldier flies in circular food systems for BBC, and a deep dive into regenerative agriculture land loans for FoodPrint. |
 | Elizabeth Myong, Dallas, TX Elizabeth Myong reports and produces for Arts Access, a journalism partnership between KERA and The Dallas Morning News. She covers the intersection of money, labor and the economy with arts and culture. Myong also likes to write about food and culture, whether she's reporting on a produce market that's gone viral on TikTok or a nonprofit trying to grow the number of Black farmers in Texas. Previously, she worked for CNBC, The Houston Chronicle and Houstonia Magazine. Myong is an alum of Poynter's Power of Diverse Voices program and the Poynter-Koch Fellowship. Her innovation project focused on talking with community members about deep fakes, misinformation and sensationalism. In her free time, Myong enjoys baking, reading about the path of tomatoes and watching old films. |
 | Dominic Preston, London, UK News Editor, The Verge
Dominic Preston is The Verge’s UK-based News Editor. He’s been in journalism since 2013, after picking up two degrees in philosophy that he still hasn’t figured out what to do with. His career in journalism started out with covering movies and games before moving onto the tech beat. At The Verge, he covers everything from smartphones to tariffs, with ambitions to expand the site’s food coverage, looking at cultivated, technological developments in food production, and more. He was previously the deputy editor at Tech Advisor and a managing editor at Android Police, and also runs the newsletter Braise about food in London. |
 | Xander Peters, Kirbyville, TX Xander Peters is a writer living in rural East Texas. He's held journalism fellowships in energy, environmental justice, climate change, and climate change disinformation at Columbia University, Wake Forest University, Ohio State University, and the Boell Foundation. His work on foodways, nature, and civil rights has appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, Texas Monthly, and others.
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 | Marin Scotten, Brookyln, NY Marin is a New York-based journalist covering the intersection of politics, climate, and agriculture. Her freelance work has been published in The Guardian, The New Republic, The Baltimore Banner, Modern Farmer, Floodlight News, and Salon, among others. Alongside her reporting, Marin holds a MA in Journalism and International Relations from New York University.
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 | Skye Witley, Washington, DC Skye Witley is Bloomberg Government’s agriculture policy reporter covering Congress and the US Agriculture Department. He also authors a weekly newsletter for Bloomberg capturing the latest farm and food policy developments coming out of Washington and how they implicate communities across the nation. Witley is a White House Correspondents’ Association scholarship awardee and former media fellow of the National Press Foundation and Loyola Law School. He previously reported on cybersecurity and privacy at Bloomberg Law after studying journalism and environmental science at American University.
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