become a fellow!

Our Environmental News & Marketing Fellowship Program is one of the best things about Stone Pier Press. It gives participants a chance to develop stronger writing and marketing skills, and become more effective advocates for change. Fellows are a big part of what allows our organization to push for a cooler, kinder, and greener food system, and we're grateful for their energy, smarts, and activism.

See our brief introduction to the Fellowship program, produced by Fellow Finley Doyle.

Stone Pier Press trains between 16 and 21 Fellows a year. In surveys, everyone who has graduated from our program reports being more committed to working to improve our food system as a result.

The program is curriculum-based and includes an introduction to environmental news writing, marketing outreach, and social media. It also trains participants to read and use data to build engagement across multiple channels. The Fellowship is an opportunity to stay on top of and discuss key trends and developments within the good food world.

A book trailer for Gwen the Rescue Hen, produced by Fellow Theresa Thao Nguyen.

Our Fellows have:

Produced book trailers for Gwen and Sprig.
Built an extensive archive of climate friendly recipes.
Helped research and write books on regenerative gardening.
Added to our archive of helpful hints for would-be citizen gardeners.
Shared our message across social media channels.
Launched email campaigns that have landed author interviews and book reviews.
Developed introductory level expertise in analytics and data marketing.

Fellows also write our solutions-oriented stories, many of which have been picked up by other news outlets and shared with millions of readers.

Prospective Environmental News & Marketing Fellows can apply for a Spring, Summer, or Fall session, each of which runs about four months long.

This is an educational program set up in compliance with Department of Labor standards. It is part-time, remote, and unpaid. If you’re a college student, it’s possible the Fellowship will qualify for a class credit. Thus far, our program has been offered for class credit at Stanford, University of Texas, Columbia, and Smith College.

For more program details, please click “apply.” Thank you for your interest!

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MEET OUR FELLOWS

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SENNA CATENACCI

Senna is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, where she studied Environment and Political Science. After graduating she moved to San Francisco, first working at a criminal justice nonprofit and then for a small architecture firm. She hopes now to transition her career to the subject she's most passionate about, namely environmental justice. Having always enjoyed writing, she's also trying to incorporate this more into her life both inside and outside of the office. In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, traveling, reading, and trying to find the best and cheapest food in the city.

KATE GREEN

Kate is a senior at UCLA majoring in English and minoring in Community Engagement and Social Change. From leading a feminist magazine to teaching for a literacy nonprofit, she finds purpose in using storytelling to uplift advocacy movements. Kate is also an eight-year vegan with a passion for building a kinder food system. When she is not writing and editing, Kate may be found trying new vegan recipes or visiting her local animal sanctuary farm.

RUBY LYON

Ruby is a junior at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, double majoring in English Literature and Classics. She is an editor for the Inklight journal and regularly participates in creative writing workshops. Ruby is passionate about communicating our shared human responsibility for nurturing the Earth and learning how to inspire environmental action. When she’s not reading in her garden, you can find Ruby testing recipes or arranging music for her a cappella group.

JULIA NAGEL

Julia is a senior at Cornell University majoring in English and minoring in Environment & Sustainability. She is especially interested in the intersection between the humanities and the environment. Some of her favorite courses during her undergraduate career thus far include a course on black ecoliterature, a class about mushrooms and fungi, and a seminar dedicated to approaching the topic of energy from a humanities based perspective. Julia is also passionate about visual storytelling; she works as the photography editor for the Cornell Daily Sun. She similarly enjoys volunteering at the Cornell Botanic Gardens where she helps to build a bridge between the gardens and the surrounding community. Besides weekly trips to the farmer’s market, she spends most of her free time pet sitting and cooking up vegetarian recipes.

ELISABETH VOHWINKEL

Elisabeth Vohwinkel is a current undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill double majoring in English and Comparative Literature and French. She has been involved with literature and publishing throughout her undergraduate career. She was president of a literary magazine called The Charles Carter at UNC and is a published poet. She has done a lot of volunteer work preserving nature and working at local Food Banks and a homeless hospitality house. She loves to read, write, paint water colors, listen to a wide range of music, and hang out with her friends.