About Elizabeth Aguilera
Elizabeth Aguilera is AHCJ's core topic leader for environmental health and an award-winning multimedia journalist. She specializes in stories about where policy meets people. She has been reporting for more than two decades across platforms from print to public radio to digital and podcast. Her beats have ranged from urban affairs to immigration and health care. Aguilera most recently worked for CalMatters, where she covered the health and welfare of children and youth, previously covered health care policy and co-hosted a politics podcast leading up to the 2021 elections.

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Evidence has shown that underserved neighborhoods and people of color are disproportionately affected by climate change, extreme heat and environmental inequalities.
However, mainstream climate and environmental news coverage often overlooks the most impacted communities. Now, a group of journalists of color is actively working to change the status quo through the Uproot Project, a growing network of journalists of color focused on the environment and climate change in communities hit hardest by the crisis.
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Elizabeth Aguilera is AHCJ's core topic leader for environmental health and an award-winning multimedia journalist. She specializes in stories about where policy meets people. She has been reporting for more than two decades across platforms from print to public radio to digital and podcast. Her beats have ranged from urban affairs to immigration and health care. Aguilera most recently worked for CalMatters, where she covered the health and welfare of children and youth, previously covered health care policy and co-hosted a politics podcast leading up to the 2021 elections.