Erin Stone is a journalist whose work focuses on the social, environmental, and economic realities and disparities people face. Her reporting has taken her from a roomful of surgeons performing a liver transplant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to the back of a motorcycle in Odessa, Texas, during an evening ride with a sober bikers club, to the silty islands of the Sundarbans in India, where people live on the front line of climate change.

Erin has worked as a reporter for The Arizona Republic, San Francisco Chronicle, Dallas Observer and Midland Reporter-Telegram in west Texas, as well as a freelance fact-checker for National Geographic Magazine. Her work has also been published in National Geographic, Mother Jones Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications. She is currently the Climate Emergency Reporter at local NPR-affiliate LAist.

With the conviction that healing begins with being heard, Erin believes in the power of storytelling to foster empathy and spur change. She is passionate about stories that challenge mainstream narratives, center the human experiences behind statistics and policies, and illuminate the universal within the specific to help audiences connect across dividing lines.

She completed her Master's at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, with a focus on narrative writing.

Feel free to get in touch! Reach her at estone [@] scpr [dot] org.