Overview
Work History
Education
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LANGUAGES
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PUBLISHED WORKS
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Anna Barnes

East Lansing

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Host

Seeds of Solutions - Podcast
East Lansing, MI
01.2026 - Current
  • Hosting a podcast focused on environmental stories that lead with solutions.

Research Assistant/Internship

Research Project/Database Development
East Lansing, MI
09.2024 - Current
  • I helped develop an international database in 3 languages and working with academics from GS. I was in charge of collecting articles using academic databases.
  • Field work in Peru

Reporter

Great Lakes Echo
East Lansing, MI
01.2023 - Current
  • Environmental reporting focused on Great Lakes States and Canada.

Reporter

The State News
East Lansing, MI
09.2024 - 04.2025
  • Environmental and business reporting for State News Media Group

Student

Job Shadow, WXMI FOX17
Grand Rapids, MI
07.2023 - 07.2023
  • What did you do here?

Education

MA - Journalism

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
12.2026

Bachelor - Journalism

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
05.2025

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Study Abroad, Peru
Peru
07.2024

Affiliations

  • Society of Environmental Journalism, Phoenix, AZ, 2025
  • Society of Environmental Journalists Student Newsroom, Philadelphia, PA, 2024 — Reporter
  • March 2024
  • Participated in the inaugural student newsroom at the conference.
  • Latin America symposium and workshop

LANGUAGES

Spanish (proficient, write, read, speak)
Quechua (beginner)

Timeline

Host

Seeds of Solutions - Podcast
01.2026 - Current

Research Assistant/Internship

Research Project/Database Development
09.2024 - Current

Reporter

The State News
09.2024 - 04.2025

Student

Job Shadow, WXMI FOX17
07.2023 - 07.2023

Reporter

Great Lakes Echo
01.2023 - Current

Bachelor - Journalism

Michigan State University

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Study Abroad, Peru

MA - Journalism

Michigan State University

PUBLISHED WORKS

  • Unreleased Documentary (Director): WealthWashed
  • The State News: Michigan cities deemed 'climate havens' aren't truly safe from climate change effects
  • Great Lakes Echo: Nature has clues to solve environmental problems
  • Include more Echo stories
  • Detroit Free Press: Working-class Osceola County can’t afford to ignore politics, presidential election
  • SEJ Student Newsroom: Gap Over Future of Delaware Water Gap
  • Short Documentary: Colonization of Information
Anna Barnes