Alumni: Hillary Rosner

Tropical rainforests: Carbon sink or carbon source?

M.S. 2006

After graduation: Environment and Science Journalist

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Hillary Rosner completed her MS in environmental studies in 2006, with a focus on environmental journalism. She was part of CU's Carbon, Climate and Society Initiative, a National Science Foundation IGERT program that studied interdisciplinary solutions to the problems of climate change.

Since 1993, Hillary has been working as a journalist, and she continues to write for national publications, covering science and the environment. She was a contributor to Al Gore's bestselling book on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth." Before moving to Boulder, Hillary was a senior editor at the Village Voice and a science and technology editor at the online magazine Feed. She has written for the New York Times, Seed, Wired, Audubon, Grist, High Country News, New York Magazine, Town & Country, and many other magazines and newspapers. She covers the environment for 5280, Denver's monthly magazine.

Hillary has taught writing and journalism to high school and college students, and has given lectures and seminars on the subject of media coverage of the environment. Hillary was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and will spend the 2010-11 academic year at MIT.

Hillary graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in American Studies, and received her MFA in creative writing from New York University. She moved to Boulder from New York City in 2002.