Writing

Amelia has worked as a freelance reporter, covering environmental and social justice movements, in addition to writing music criticism. She also works as a freelance proofreader.

Podcast

Amelia is a co-producer and composer of Stay Salty: Lakefacing Stories, a podcast and multimedia project about overlooked stories from people connected to and impacted by the receding Great Salt Lake.

Reporting and Essays

‘Premature electrification’: Petro-masculine panic in the EV era, Environmental History Now, September 2024

By your side: As lawmakers debate the future of the Great Salt Lake, a group of artists, scientists and community stewards kept vigil near the shoreline (co-authored with Brooke Larsen), City Weekly, 22 March 2023

Review: Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car by Charles Murray, H-Net Reviews, March 2023

35 Years of Humanities for the Public, University of Utah College of Humanities Perspectives Magazine, 2021-2022 Issue

#NoDAPL Fights On in Illinois, Belt Magazine, Feb 14, 2020

Warehouse Workers in the Green New Deal Fight: An Interview with Roberto Clack, The Trouble, Dec 22, 2019

Visions of Justice Through Jazz, South Side Weekly, Dec 10, 2019

Death and Rebirth at Big Marsh Park, South Side Weekly (cover story), Oct 15, 2019

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Anishinaabeg Leaders March Against Enbridge’s $7.5 Billion Oil Pipeline, In These Times, Oct 14, 2019

Will Chicago’s Next Mayor Prioritize Environmental Justice?, South Side Weekly, Feb 26, 2019

Trombones on the Picket Line: Lyric Opera Orchestra on Strike for the First Time in 50 Years, In These Times, Oct 10, 2018

Audia Music News

Katherine Paul of Black Belt Eagle Scout is Decolonizing the Party, Audia, Nov 10, 2019

Album Review: Bedouine — Bird Songs of a Killjoy, Audia, Sept 2, 2019

Our Top 9 Albums of 2019, Audia, July 7, 2019

Album Review: Laura Misch — A Lonely City , Audia, May 10, 2019

10 Albums We Loved in 2018, Audia, Dec 16, 2018

Geez

Birdwatching, Geez Magazine #54, Oct 1, 2019

Essay/Other Nonfiction

Destination is Interrupted by Nostalgia: Artist Statement, Jan 12, 2019

Why I Walked 300 Miles to the Climate Talks, Medium, originally written Nov 2017

Writing About Me

Walk of a Lifetime, Beloit College Magazine, May 15, 2018