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Emilia Askari

University of Michigan

United States of America - Ann Arbor

Biography

Emilia Askari teaches environmental journalism at the University of Michigan. She also advises a news nonprofit, Planet Detroit; judges the Oakes Award in Environmental Journalism; and serves on numerous committees of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Emilia was SEJ’s second president and co-chaired SEJ’s annual conference twice. Emilia earned a PhD in educational technology from Michigan State University; master’s degrees in Information Science from the University of Michigan and Journalism from Columbia University; and a bachelor’s degree in economics and creative writing from Brown University. She has been a staff reporter for the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner – winning numerous journalism prizes and fellowships, including the Knight Wallace Fellowship.