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#SEJSpotlight: Jennifer Grayson, Freelance Journalist and Author

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Meet SEJ member Jennifer Grayson! Jennifer is a Los Angeles-based journalist focusing on the environment, food systems and public health. She is the author of "Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy" (HarperCollins), which won SEJ's 2017 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. Her new book, "A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World" — for which she embedded herself in a regenerative farmer training program in Central Oregon at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — was published by Countryman Press/W. W. Norton. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, USA Today and the Huffington Post, where she penned the long-running "Eco Etiquette" and "Innovation Earth" columns. Jennifer honed her ear for writing perhaps more untraditionally than most journalists, with a degree in classical voice from the New England Conservatory of Music. She still sings professionally in L.A., where she lives with her screenwriter husband and two daughters.

When asked how SEJ membership has made her job easier, Jennifer said, "Having the opportunity to enter the SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment — and subsequently winning the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award — undoubtedly advanced my career and helped me get my second book deal. I'll be forever grateful to SEJ!" Join us — apply for SEJ membership.

Find Jennifer: 

Web:               jennifergrayson.com
Instagram:     @jennifergrayson1

 

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