Kelsey Fitzgerald, Author at Sierra Nevada Ally

Kelsey Fitzgerald

Kelsey Fitzgerald has a background in biology and ecology and spent her early career working on wildlife biology, wildland fire and ecological restoration projects around the western U.S. Along the way, she came across many important science stories that weren’t being told. She completed her master’s degree at the Reynolds School of Journalism in 2015, with a focus on environmental journalism and citizen science along the Truckee River. She worked as a freelance journalist in Reno covering science and the environment, then continued on to the Desert Research Institute where she served as a science writer and senior communications officer for more than 300 scientists in Northern and Southern Nevada.

Fitzgerald specializes in making science stories understandable and relatable to wide audiences and has won awards from the Public Relations Society of America for her work. Her experience includes writing, photography, podcasting, web design, graphic design and ArcGIS StoryMaps.

Celebrating Indigenous Foods at the First Nevada Tribal Foods Summit

By Kelsey Fitzgerald ● Culture ● July 5, 2023

The event — a traditional foods potluck dinner — was held as part of the first Nevada Tribal Foods Summit, a conference held at UNR Lake Tahoe on May 31-June 2, on the traditional lands of the Washoe people.

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