Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Announces 2025 Cohort of Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists
Jun 04, 2025
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) is delighted to announce the new fellows who comprise the 2025 cohort of the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists.
Established in 2024, the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists is designed to help early-to-mid career journalists navigate the complexity of issues at the intersection of public health and food systems. The fellowship supports ambitious reporting on overlooked and misunderstood topics rooted in the prevailing model of food production and efforts to promote healthy, just, and sustainable food systems.
The 2025 cohort is the fellowship’s second cohort and is composed of 12 journalists, 11 of whom currently work and reside in Arkansas, California, Iowa, New York, Texas, and Washington, DC, and one who works and resides in London. The reporters cover a variety of topics, ranging from agricultural policy to climate change to environment to immigration, labor, energy, and tech as they relate to food systems.
The inaugural 2024 cohort was composed of seven journalists. Last year, as the kick-off for the year-long program, the cohort visited Ebenezer Haitian Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Seaford, Delaware, where they heard first-hand stories from workers in slaughter and processing facilities. This year’s cohort will spend time in St. Michaels, Maryland, an Eastern Shore town, where they will learn about various aspects of the fishing industry.
“I couldn’t be more excited to work with these 12 reporters, whom we're counting on to keep this crucial beat moving forward during this challenging era of journalism,” says Tom Philpott, a journalist and senior research associate at the Center for a Livable Future, who helps to facilitate the fellowship. “I’m looking forward to learning about the unique perspectives each of them brings to the program.”
The 2025 recipients of the Food System and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists are:
- Nicole J. Caruth, a freelance journalist based in Richmond, California
- Artis Curiskis, an editorial fellow at Mother Jones, based in Brooklyn, New York
- Nina B. Elkadi, an investigative reporter for Sentient, who splits her time between Washington, DC and Iowa City, Iowa
- Caleb Hampton, an assistant editor at Ag Alert, based in Davis, California
- Jordan Hickey, a freelance journalist based in Springdale, Arkansas
- ray levy uyeda, climate justice reporter at Prism, based in Oakland, California
- Miranda Lipton, a freelance journalist based in Brookyln, New York
- Elizabeth Myong, a reporter with KERA and the Dallas Morning News, based in Dallas, Texas
- Dominic Preston, a news editor at The Verge, based in London, UK
- Xander Peters, a freelance journalist based in Kirbyville, Texas
- Marin Scotten, a freelance journalist based in Brookyln, New York
- Skye Witley, an agricultural policy reporter for Bloomberg Government, based in Washington, DC