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By the Rainforest Journalism Fund Amazon Advisory Committee The seed for the Rainforest Journalism Fund was planted and nurtured in Brazil by a group of locally-based correspondents who were concerned the Amazon was underreported, even though it is one of the biggest stories of our age, or any age

By Mary Roche 11th grade, Eastchester High School, NY With lines from "The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees" by Agostino Petroni, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Step into the ghost forest. The unearthly woodland is not haunted, Just dead. How do you kill the unkillable? The

By Emma Lee 9th grade, Stanton College Preparatory School, FL With lines from “Finding Moments of Grace and Gold in the Midst of a Pandemic” by Naomi Marcus, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. a lukewarm berry engorged by a sticky web of dew and tears unfurling with the sour decay of reality

By Jacklyn Vandermel 10th grade, Northern Valley Regional High School, NJ 1st place contest winner With lines from “The Victims and Those Left Behind” by Mary F. Calvert, a Pulitzer Center reporting project claim 28 uranium mine, february 2020 bits of rheum like uranium glass form around the navajo

By Ares Bandebo-Cambra 3rd grade, Claire Lilienthal Elementary School, CA With lines from “Cielo’s Story #2: Fighting Loneliness” by Cielo Spini, a Pulitzer Center reporting project So long ago, I don’t remember when friends moved away to open schools and yards. My wings were clipped by zoom calls

The second quarter of 2021 was another period of extraordinary, surprising growth for the Pulitzer Center. Extraordinary given the many different ways we’ve grown. Surprising in that all this activity was taking place—and thriving—under the continued challenges of the pandemic. The 13 full-time

By Oliver Lee 11th grade, Arrowhead Union High School, WI With lines from “ Georgia ‘Doesn’t Care About Me’: LGBTQ Struggles Worsen Under Lockdown ” by Chloé Lula, a Pulitzer Center reporting project The thing about fire is, it’s not just one color. It’s orange, yes, and yellow and white, and blue

By Kayla Maame Sarpong Kessie 11th grade, SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College, Ghana With lines from “COVID’s Darkest Effects: How the Pandemic May Fuel Child Trafficking in Ghana” by Kira Leadholm, a Pulitzer center reporting project Fields of cassava stretch, green, bountiful, not enough

By Beatrix Stone 9th grade, Allendale Junior High School, Canada With lines from “Lives Frozen By Conflict” by Paula Bronstein, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Walk along the contact line, Walk the line of life, Walk the bones of human toll, Those pitiful, alive. Watch their weary desperate eyes

By Shelby Merriman 11th grade, Bear Creek High School, CO With lines from “How Texas’s Zombie Oil Wells Are Creating an Environmental Disaster Zone” by Clayton Aldern, Christopher Collins, and Naveena Sadasivam, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Before my siblings and I were born, My mother was

By Taeyeon Han 11th grade, Arnold O. Beckman High School, CA With lines from "Living Planet: Capturing Carbon in Costa Rica" by Daniel Grossman and Dado Galdieri, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. self-destruction They’re standing on the banks of a river — in a gully – cutting through a wall of

By Penelope Garfunkle 6th grade, St. Paul's Episcopal School, CA With lines from “The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees” by Agostino Petroni, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Once bejeweled with pale green leaves, blanketing branches laden with olive-fruit, Now bearing grey bark

By Kiara Imani Adams 12th grade, Silverado High School, NV With lines from "How the Rise of Social Justice in Athletics is Transforming the Identity of Black Athletes in America" by Eric Thompson Jr., a Pulitzer Center reporting project The identity of the Black athlete in America. Someone to be

By Dylan Ragas 11th grade, Germantown Friends School, PA With lines from "Unbroken Courage” by Ingrid Olivia Norrmén-Smith, a Pulitzer Center reporting project They may be in a hibernation state at the moment, like the frog in the dry season. Like the bear resting snug in the winter, or the bats

By Muna Agwa 10th grade, Hathaway Brown School, OH With lines from "For an Agricultural Worker, Supporting His Family Means Being Separated from Them" by Ingrid Holmquist and Sana Malik, a Pulitzer Center reporting project The story of a father and a daughter, of a husband and a wife. Of two nations

By Savannah Powell 12th grade, Herriman High School, UT With lines from “‘Look After My Babies’: in Ethiopia, a Tigray Families Quest” by Cara Anna and Nariman El-Mofty When blood of Tigrayan red became a crime, We learned to paint our faces Our children are re-taught to introduce themselves

By Kavana Anklekar 12th grade, The Orbis School, India With lines from “‘Look After My Babies': In Ethiopia, A TigrayFamily's Quest” by Cara Anna and Nariman El-Mofty, a Pulitzer Center reporting project In Ethiopia, the cradle of humanity, Abraha gently caresses his wife’s pregnant belly. “Tell me