Claire Barber

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  Claire Barber

  Claire Barber holds a BA in Environmental Studies with minors in journalism and film from Colorado College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. While at Colorado College, Claire co-founded the CC Outdoor Journal (an equity-focused outdoor student publication) and began her outdoor and environmental reporting career. She has since interned for several publications, including SKI Magazine, and has produced several short documentaries. Her work has appeared in Field & Stream, Outside, Powder Magazine, Trails Magazine, Business Insider, and more. Claire’s journalism is colored by experiences working and playing in the outdoor and environmental world (she once ate a slimy grub for some free pizza and fell off of a mountain in the Pyrenees). Claire’s particular interest lies in how environmental storytelling can be made more effective and accessible. Claire has researched how local news might fail to communicate disaster information, such as wildfire alerts, to key and often overlooked stakeholders. Since 2023, Claire also has worked as a communications fellow at an ecosystem defense non-profit. There she has similarly seen how the media often struggle to effectively communicate environmental information to important constituents. While at Stanford, Claire hopes to explore how environmental reporting can be made more accessible through multimedia and data journalism.

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