victoria st. martin

instructor, planet forward frontline climate fellowship

victoria st. martin covers health and environmental justice at inside climate news. during a 20-year career in journalism, she has worked in a half dozen newsrooms, including the washington post where she served as a breaking news and general assignment reporter. besides the post, st. martin has also worked at the star-ledger of newark, n.j., the times-picayune of new orleans, the trentonian, the south bend tribune and wnit, the pbs-member station serving north central indiana. in addition to her newsroom experience, st. martin is also a journalism educator who spent four years as a distinguished visiting journalist with the gallivan program in journalism, ethics, and democracy at the university of notre dame. she is a co-director of the dow jones news fund summer internship training workshop at temple university. st. martin is a graduate of rutgers university and holds a master’s degree from american university’s school of communication. she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 and has written extensively about the prevalence of breast cancer in young women. in her work, st. martin is particularly interested in health care disparities affecting black women.

other articles by victoria st. martin
dereliction of beauty (inside climate news)

q&a: should we be having babies in a warming world? (inside climate news)

to live and die in philadelphia: sonya sanders grew up next door to a giant refinery. she’s still suffering from environmental trauma (inside climate news)

in louisiana’s ‘cancer alley,’ excitement over new emissions rules is tempered by a legal challenge to federal environmental justice efforts (inside climate news)

more than a third of all americans live in communities with ‘hazardous’ air, lung association finds (inside climate news)

five decades and a mountain of evidence: study explores how toxic chemicals are ‘stealing children’s future potential’ (inside climate news)

at cop28, a growing sense of alarm over the harms of air pollution (inside climate news)

in the ‘armpit of the universe,’ a window into the persistent inequities of environmental policy (inside climate news)

industrial plants in gary and other environmental justice communities are highlighted as top emitters (inside climate news)

florida legislators ban local heat protections for millions of outdoor workers (inside climate news)