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Sarah Suwalsky

Sarah graduated from Arizona State University as a Paul D. Coverdell Fellow with an M.A. in Investigative Reporting. With a lens on education, immigration, and audio storytelling, Sarah hopes to tell the stories that are important to readers and listeners in ways that can reach them.

A sign welcomes passersby to an “Energy Sacrifice Zone” outside of Counselor, New Mexico, on Oct. 26, 2021.

Straddling the divide between environmental action and energy revenue

By: Isabel Koyama, Sarah Suwalsky, Jimmy Cloutier and Zach Van Arsdale, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism - February 28, 2022

COUNSELOR, New Mexico — Bright pink flags mark a swath of newly cleared land, rubber water hoses snake along the roadside and pump jacks dot the horizon, all signs of the state’s growth as an oil and gas hub. But even as production expands across New Mexico, the state is trying to shrink its global […]

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