Clarisa Diaz is the senior interaction and graphic designer for New York Public Radio’s newsroom, including Gothamist and WNYC's Data News & Journalism team. She reports on issues related to design and environmental science. Clarisa was named a 2019-2020 Connected Coastlines grantee to report on climate change in NYC with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her story on the city’s peaker power plants won the 2020 Front Page Award for a locally reported feature. She was awarded a science journalism fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2018. Her reporting and design work has also been featured on PBS, Science Friday, recognized by the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards and The Municipal Art Society of New York MASterwork Awards. She was on the WNYC team that created the Harlem Heat project, which won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation in 2017. You can see more of her work at www.clarisadiaz.com.
Clarisa has taught design courses for the Integrated Digital Media program at NYU, the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and at Parsons where she received her master’s degree. She’s a former Fulbright scholar in architecture and urban design, which set her living abroad for several years. Back in NYC, you’ll find her in her favorite borough: Queens.
Clarisa Diaz appears in the following:
Prospect Park Tackles Toxic Algae Blooms With Nature-Based Technology
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Thousands Plan to Take Part in Youth-Led Climate Strike
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Lead in the Land
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Giving Birth While Black
Tuesday, May 07, 2019
The Norcross Connections
Friday, May 03, 2019
The People vs. Dutch Boy Lead
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Fewer Undocumented Immigrant Crime Victims Are Stepping Forward
Monday, March 25, 2019
A Mother and Daughter Both Have H.I.V. The U.S. Lets in Only One.
Wednesday, March 06, 2019
Meet The Freaky ‘Twilight Zone’ Sea Creatures Eating Our Carbon Emissions
Friday, February 08, 2019
For New Jersey Jails, Suicides and Overdoses, but Little Oversight
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Women in the Senate
Thursday, October 11, 2018
How California Baby Carrots Turned Into a Cash Crop for New York Republicans
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Nixon's Turn to 'Expand the Electorate'
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Takedown in the Bronx
Monday, August 06, 2018
How Trump's Quota Plan Could Punish New York's Immigration Judges
Thursday, August 02, 2018
Under Trump, Democratic New Jersey Counties Cash in on Detaining Immigrants
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Poisoned Gardens
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
New York Special Elections Results: A Democratic Win Won't Turn the Senate Blue
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
What Bail Reform Could Look Like in New York
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Snowmelt
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
