Anthropology Association Apologizes to Native Americans for the Field’s Legacy of Harm – Scientific American, March 28, 2022

For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history.

Family Still Seeks Answers After Deadly Railroad-Crossing Accident – Fort Worth Magazine, September 7, 2021

On May 29, 1980, Joe Parsons was killed by a train at a railroad crossing. Forty years later, there are still questions left unanswered.

Long-form feature with photography. 

What the Campaign Against a North London Waste Incinerator Teaches Us About the Green Movement’s Diversity Problem – DeSmog, December 15, 2021

Activists opposing the rebuild of an incinerator in the London Borough of Enfield ... have been forced to confront environmentalism’s white, middle-class dominance.

Audio & radio producing, reporting and writing

Device that stores liquid sunshine could one day power your phone – New Scientist, May 13, 2022

A system for trapping sunlight as thermal energy within molecules and then converting it to electricity could be a portable replacement for batteries.

RACHEL PARSONS

 Writer, Multimedia journalist, Photographer, producer, host, traveler, dancer 

(not necessarily in that order)

Still images

Reporting & writing for online and print

Television & digital producing, reporting, hosting, videography and editing

Long-form with photography for Anthropolitan, a publication of the Anthropology Department at University College London. This work was the foundation for Rachel's 2021 MSc dissertation on identities and exclusion in urban environmental movements in London.

Rachel Parsons won Best Feature Photo and Best Photo Essay for the Malheur Enterprise at the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Awards, September 2021.