All Hands on Deck: Building Community to Fight Wildfires
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Sarah Wright
Sarah Wright is a San Francisco-based journalist, editor and thruhiker. Her journalistic works, including award-winning pieces, have appeared in The Guardian, NPR, Science Politics, KQED, The San Francisco Standard, The Half Moon Bay Review, The Palo Alto Weekly, Coastside Magazine and The Hoya. Her research has been published by the Environmental Law Institute and the United Nations Environment Programme. She was selected as a U.S. Fulbright Program grantee in 2023 and a Mesa Refuge writing resident in 2025. She is currently the outdoors reporter for KQED, the San Francisco Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. In 2019, she completed a four-and-a-half month southbound trek of the Pacific Crest Trail and is now planning her next thruhike attempt of the Continental Divide Trail.