Maria Rose
In second grade, Maria Parazo Rose started a newspaper called Kids Weekly, which featured important news for the neighborhood children. She didn’t have access to a photocopier, so the paper had quite a limited run, but her enthusiasm for storytelling has only grown stronger (and more resilient) since. Her experiences growing up in Manila in the Philippines and the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia fostered her early awareness of environmental disparities between the Global North and South. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in environmental studies, reporting experience in Australia, and a love for geologic time scales.
Since then, she spent a few years working with a small nonprofit on migrant rights and statelessness in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and has served as a producer on Resettled, a podcast that explores the refugee resettlement process in the US, and for NPR’s Morning Edition in Pittsburgh. She has also reported for several outlets, including StoryCorps, The Allegheny Front, and Pittsburgh and Richmond, Virginia’s NPR flagship stations.
