SEJ Board Election

Susan Moran
Active Board Candidate

I have been honored to serve on the SEJ Board of Directors for the last three years. The organization has made much progress in that period.  I would like to run for a second term on the SEJ board (as an active member) to help keep that momentum going.

I am a freelance journalist and have been a SEJ member since 2001. My tenure on the board (since 2014) has largely been directed toward a mission of advocating for independent journalists and the environment in which they work. I also have strived to diversify, not just increase, SEJ’s membership. I want to continue on that mission of expanding the SEJ community to the following: more people of color; reporters and editors who cover energy, business, agriculture, health and other beats that overlap with the environment; international journalists; and students and other budding journalists. 

As chair of the board’s Programs Committee for the last year, I have been actively promoting an expansion of fellowships and grants that serve both independent and staff reporters and photographers.  The committee and full board are making progress on that front and I hope we will roll out some larger and new offerings soon.

This last year has been a challenging and enriching time serving on the board during SEJ’s transition to a new executive director. I’d like to continue serving also to offer stability, continuity and institutional memory as many new pieces of the organizational puzzle settle into place.

A bit more about me: I was mostly a staff reporter and editor for more than 15 years (at Reuters in Tokyo, New York, and Silicon Valley; at Business 2.0 magazine; and at other publications) before launching a freelance career in 2002, following an academic year as a Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. For several years after that I juggled teaching journalism as an adjunct instructor at CU Boulder and practicing journalism. I have covered the intersections of energy, health, climate change, biodiversity, business and other issues for the New York Times, The Economist, Popular Science, Nature, Discover and other publications, and have been working as a host and producer of the How On Earth science show on KGNU radio in Colorado.  The last few years I have focused on practicing freelance journalism. I have extended my love of teaching and mentoring to SEJ, mainly as an organizer and facilitator of some day-long freelance workshops and pitch slams at the annual SEJ conference.

If you’ll lend me your support you can be sure that I will work as hard as I can to promote journalism itself in this era of fake news, and I will advocate for freelance journalists in particular. Thanks for considering my candidacy!

Susan Moran

Feel free to check out my work at www.susankmoran.com

Contact: [email protected]

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