Anna Clark

Anna Clark is a journalist in Detroit and the author of “The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy,” which was named one of the year’s best books by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, Audible, Amazon, the New York Public Library, and others. It is the winner of the Hillman Prize in Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Elle, the New York Times, Politico, the Columbia Journalism Review, Next City, and other places. She has been a Fulbright fellow in Nairobi, Kenya, and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan. She received the Excellence in Environmental Journalism award from the Great Lakes Environmental Law Council.

How Detroit’s schools and food banks are keeping the city fed amid the pandemic

This is the new picture of food insecurity in Detroit, where the coronavirus pandemic has made hunger more visible. In…

4 years ago

Behind the new picture of food insecurity in Detroit, and those fighting it.

This is the new picture of food insecurity in Detroit, where the coronavirus pandemic has made hunger more visible. In…

4 years ago

Metro Detroit’s environmental organizations are largely white. Some are working to change that.

People of color have intimate relationships with the natural world, and environmental injustice disproportionately harms them. So why are environmental…

4 years ago

Hey Michigan: How are we doing, really?

The pandemic has created enduring mental health struggles -- but it’s also exposed ways we could reimagine our system of…

4 years ago

What happens when you give people cash to move to Detroit

Can a neighborhood tackle two of Detroit's biggest problems — shrinking population and chronic disinvestment — by giving people cash…

5 years ago