Rona Kobell is the co-founder and founding editor of the Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative. Rona spent nine years at The Baltimore Sun and then eight at the Chesapeake Bay Journal. She was editor of Chesapeake Quarterly, a magazine Maryland Sea Grant produces, as well as a producer for several films about environmental justice. She will graduate in May with a Master’s of Arts from University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, where she created and teaches an environmental justice course. She is also teaching an honors course at UMBC focusing on sounds of environmental justice. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and was a Knight-Wallace fellow at the university.