Ruth Dusseault

Ruth Dusseault

Ruth Dusseault

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Ruth Dusseault is an environmental journalist with multi-discipline experience in film, art and design.  A California Local News Fellows, she reports on systems that undergird modern life. Her avenues include architecture, environmental engineering, food systems and public policy. Her digital humanities work has been featured on NPR and in the New York Times. She covers climate, housing and public health as a reporter for Bay City News.

EDUCATION

  • Uc Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

EMPLOYERS

  • Reporter, Bay City News Foundation, UC California Local Reporting Fellow / Reporter, Investigative Reporting Program, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism / Associate Producer, The Greater Good Foundation, UC Berkeley / Reporter, Oakland North / Graduate Instructor, Media Studies Department, UC Berkeley, 2021 - 2023 / Education intern, Internews' Earth Journalism Network / Archival intern Hybrid Cinema/8Above 2022 for "The Mark Pauline Story" / Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech School of Architecture 2001 - 2012

AWARDS & HONORS

  • Society for Environmental Journalists Fund for Public Lands Coverage
    New Delhi International Film Festival 2023
    Honorable Mention, London International Monthly Film Festival 2022
    Berkeley Journalism Fellowship
    Finalist, Creative Capital
    Idea Capital Artist Award
    Design Award, National Endowment for the Arts

PUBLICATIONS & OTHER WORK

  • Breaking: After Vistra battery fire residents report illness, scientists confirm contamination. Hunterbrook Media, Jan. 27, 2025

    The Tunnel Vision: a look at California's $20 billion solution to its water crisis," Local News Matters, Oct. 22, 2024

    “Ecotopia Now,” chapter Design Radicals: Spaces of California Counterculture, ed. Greg Castillo and Lee Stickells (Univ. Minnesota Press) 2023, supported by the Graham Foundation.

    “Play War: Homemade Recreational Battlefields,” Places Journal, 2014

    “The Incomplete Illusion: Photographing the Training Ground, “Journal Society Arch. Historians, Sept. 2013

  • Author archive, Bay City News Foundation
    https://localnewsmatters.org/author/ruth-dusseault-bay-city-news/

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

  • Society for Environmental Journalists
    Investigative Reporters & Editors
    Society of Professional Journalists

REPORTING INTERESTS

Agriculture, ArcGIS, Environmental Regulation, architecture, conservation and land management, environmental engineering, military culture, natural building, sustainable design