Rukeyser Reporting Grants Winners
Max de Haldevang
STAN SWINTON GRANTEE 2024
Sponsored by the Swinton Family
Max will use his grant to travel to South America, where he is reporting on the history of a storied sliver of cloud forest that could provide hope for a field of tropical botanists facing down the barrel of a biodiversity crisis that is as existential as climate change but receives even less attention. Max won the OPC Foundation Scholar Award in 2015
Diana Kruzman
THEO WILSON GRANTEE 2024
Sponsored by donations from family and friends
Diana’s project will explore the long-lasting impact of the drying of the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake and now a source of toxic air pollution. She will detail how efforts to address the disaster in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan can hold lessons for other drying lakes around the world. Diana won the OPC Foundation Scholar Award in 2021.