Kiley Price (’19) was recently hired as a reporter at Inside Climate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that provides essential reporting and analysis on climate change, energy and the environment. Along with covering longer stories, she writes the outlet’s newsletter “Today’s Climate,” which explores the most pressing environmental news each week.
Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Time Magazine, Live Science, Mongabay, Scientific American and more. In 2023, Kiley earned her master’s degree in science journalism from New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. Previously, she was a staff writer and managing editor at the nonprofit Conservation International, where she covered research happening at the organization.
In 2019, Kiley earned her bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in journalism at Wake Forest University, where she completed her honors thesis on the importance of science communications. During her time at Wake, she was chosen as the school’s Pulitzer Fellow on Crisis Reporting, during which she spent a month in Thailand covering the intersection between Buddhism and the country’s environmental movement.
Here is some of Kiley’s recent work:
Sewage Across Borders: The Tijuana River Is Spewing Wastewater Into San Diego Amid Historic Storms, Which Could Threaten Public Health (Inside Climate News)
Vessel Strikes on Whales Are Increasing With Warming. Can the Shipping Industry Slow Down to Spare Them? (Inside Climate News)
How AI is helping scientists protect birds (National Geographic)
The Company Working to Make Flood Insurance Climate-Proof (Time Magazine)
Are Sea Cucumbers a Cleanup Solution to Fish Farm Pollution? (Yale Environment 360)