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Rebekah Cowell - Member

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Rebekah Cowell

Investigative Freelance Social Justice Journalist

Schuster Institute & Fund for Investigative Journalism Fellow


About Myself

Rebekah L. Cowell is a North Carolina-based investigative journalist who focuses on low-income, minority communities that abut hazardous waste facilities and have no platforms to voice their concerns about diseases related to pollution exposure. She is currently working on a six-part environmental justice series underwritten by a George Polk Grant for Investigative Reporting.

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My Stories and Projects

  • Digging deeper

    In Orange and Guilford counties, neighbors fight landfill expansions

  • Living on the Edge

    Residents endure legacy of old Chatham County landfill

  • The Waste Land

    The people of Lincoln Heights live among three city dumps. This is the story of their war on trash.

  • Dumping on New Hill

    How an enormous wastewater treatment plant wound up near a small town's historic district.

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