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Maria Parazo Rose (she/her/hers)

Spatial Data Analyst
Grist

Maria Parazo Rose is a journalist focused on how land rights and climate change impact tribal communities, sovereignty, and jurisdiction. She graduated with a master’s degree from MIT’s Science Writing program and, most recently, was a reporter and spatial data analyst on the Indigenous Affairs desk at Grist, where she made maps about Indigenous affairs, conservation, and resource extraction. While there, she led the data reporting on an investigation about state trust lands that send profits to land grant universities from Indigenous lands. Maria will work as a LaunchPad NextGen Fellow and Nova Media Fellow over the next year, reporting on how Indigenous land dispossession acts as a threat to mental and physical health, especially in the context of climate change.

Prior to working at Grist, Maria served as a producer on Resettled, a podcast that explores the refugee resettlement process in the United States, produced NPR’s Morning Edition_in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and worked for a nonprofit addressing migrant rights and statelessness in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Her work can be found in publications including Grist, Popular Science, NPR, The Allegheny Front, and the New York Focus.

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