Sara Cooper is a freelance journalist with a focus on health, environment, and science reporting. She came to journalism through Northwestern Medill’s Master of Science Journalism program. Having spent several years in public relations as a research analyst, she decided to make a career change towards journalism for a simple reason: to focus on the critical environmental and social issues she cares most about.

Since the fall of 2024, Sara has built a journalistic portfolio in a variety of mediums, including  embedded reporting with World Wildlife Fund researchers in the Congo Basin and a short-form documentary on lead contamination in Chicago’s drinking water.

Through her work, she hopes to shed light on under-reported issues and bridge gaps in understanding between people who rarely get the chance to hear each other’s stories.

You can see some of her work here.