WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thirteen collegiate and post-collegiate journalists have joined Inside Climate News as reporting fellows for the summer of 2026. This class represents the largest cohort to date for the organization, which launched the fellowship program in 2020.

The 2026 fellows are based in California, New York, the District of Columbia, Montana, Colorado, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Their assignments include reporting on overseas mining, China's global climate leadership, environmental justice in Florida, wetlands in New York state, and conservation and public lands management in the Mountain West.

The fellowship program is designed to hone participants' writing and reporting skills, deepen their expertise in climate change and environmental topics, and build a talent pipeline for the environmental media sector. More than 90 fellows have participated in the program since its launch.

"We have an incredible incoming class of summer fellows from America's best universities, and we're taking advantage of their unique talents by plugging them into some of our highest-profile reporting on overseas mining, China's growing global climate leadership, environmental justice in Florida, wetlands in New York state and conservation and public lands management in the Mountain West," said Vernon Loeb, Executive Editor at Inside Climate News.

The Clif Family Foundation, Outrider, Institute for Nonprofit News, the Dow Jones News Fund, and the fellows' universities support the program. Inside Climate News, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, launched in 2007 and received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2013.

The 2026 fellow cohort includes Claire Barber from Stanford University; Leana Carbonez, Andrew Liu, and Kate Waxman from Columbia University; Gabriel Matias Castilho from Northwestern University; and Mosabber Hossain from the University of Montana. Maya McDaniel, Daniel Perrin, and Nina Sablan represent Swarthmore College. Other fellows include Andrés Muedano from Harvard College, Madeline Shaw and Avril Silva from New York University, and Ajani Stella from Georgetown University.