Laura Paskus

Part time instructor in the Communications and Journalism Department at UNM.

"At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate" (University of New Mexico Press, 2020) https://www.unmpress.com/9780826359117/at-the-precipice/ "Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth" (Torrey House Press, 2024) https://www.torreyhouse.org/water-bodies Book contributions include: • First & Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100, edited by Elizabeth Hightower Allen (Torrey House Press, 2022) • New Mexico 2050: What Will We Be? What Can We Be? edited by Fred Harris (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) • River Basins of the American West, edited by Char Miller (Oregon State University Press, 2009) • Water in the 21st-Century West, edited by Char Miller (Oregon State University Press, 2009) • Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers, edited by Laura Pritchett (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) • The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, edited by Barry Lopez (Milkweed Press, 2007) • Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home, edited by Gary Wockner, Gregory McNamee and Sue Ellen Campbell (Johnson Books, 2005)

Freelancer for publications including High Country News, Al Jazeera, Ms. Magazine, Indian Country Today, National Geographic Online, Columbia Journalism Review, The Progressive, Santa Fe Reporter, Audubon Magazine, World Wildlife Magazine, Source New Mexico, High Country News, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, New Mexico Magazine, and Orion.

Senior Producer of “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future,” an award-winning broadcast television series that includes field pieces, studio interviews, educational curriculums for middle school students, and innovative social media outreach. Production credits also include three one-hour specials that aired in 2022.

Editor of New Mexico-based stories related to the oil and gas industry, regulation, politics, and climate change for The Slick, a project of Capital & Main.

Reporter on statewide environment issues for New Mexico Political Report.

Adjunct faculty member in the Creative Writing Department.

Conservation Beat reporter and producer for KUNM 89.9 FM in Albuquerque, N.M.

Editor of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium’s quarterly print magazine.

Wrote, assigned, and edited news stories and essays focused on Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico.