About Sara Peach
I’m an independent multimedia journalist specializing in environmental reporting. Since 2009, I’ve filmed NASA scientist James Hansen’s arrest at a mountaintop removal protest in West Virginia, reported from the Florida Keys on threats to coral reefs, documented the work of Ohio citizens who halted construction of a coal-fired power plant, and flown to Copenhagen to report from the United Nations climate change conference as a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
My video and written stories have appeared in Grist Magazine, MotherJones.com, LinkTV’s “Earth Focus,” The Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media and Raleigh’s The News & Observer, among others. I’ve won awards from the National Press Photographers Association, Pictures of the Year International, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists.
In 2009, I served as editor-in-chief of www.poweringanation.org, an interactive energy journalism project supported by the Knight and Carnegie foundations. That project won an Award of Excellence at Pictures of the Year International, Gold in the 64th College Photographer of the Year competition, and a Webby nomination. In addition, the National Press Photographers Association awarded the site “Best Multimedia Package” and “Best Use of the Web” in the 2010 Best of Photojournalism contest.
I hold a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was selected as a Roy H. Park fellow in 2007. I also earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from UNC-Chapel Hill. I’m based in central North Carolina, where I spend my spare time gardening and cycling.
Filming activist Elisa Young near Racine, Ohio. Photo by Chris Carmichael.