Events - The Margin

Camden's Burning Issue
Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 5:30pm in Camden, NJ

Join journalists from The Margin and WHYY News on Thursday, September 10th at Camden Fireworks in Camden, New Jersey for a community conversation about our recent investigation into the fires at EMR and their impact on Camden’s Waterfront South neighborhood.

Register here: https://support.whyy.org/page/101517/event/1

NYC Climate Week: The Power of Journalism
Monday, September 21, 2026 at 11am in New York, NY

The Margin is bringing together investigative journalists, editors, and photographers to discuss the power of investigative and data-driven reporting that centers the people and places most affected by environmental and climate injustice. Please join us and our friends at the Environmental Justice Oral History Project for a day-long program & exhibition bridging journalism, documentary, immersive media, and oral history as critical tools for narrative power & environmental justice movement-building.

Register here: https://luma.com/oopv0l2r

Haunted by Halong
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Join Rose Domnick, founder of Calricaraq, and Jim Biela, a school social worker with the Lower Kuskokwim School District, alongside photographer Katie Basile, for a virtual conversation about The Margin's feature story, "Haunted by Halong." The story examines the lasting impacts of Typhoon Halong on Alaska Native youth, the mental health challenges of climate displacement, and how Indigenous-led approaches to healing are helping communities recover in western Alaska.

Breathing After BioLab
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Join writer Teresa Ervin-Springs, Conyers resident and community advocate Walter Bannister, and attorney Mindy Bish for a virtual conversation about The Margin’s feature story, “Breathing After BioLab.” Hosted by Managing Editor Ko Bragg, this discussion will explore the long-term health, environmental, and accountability questions facing residents in the wake of the BioLab chemical fire in Rockdale County – and what it means to live with the ongoing impacts long after the headlines fade.

Mid-Barataria's Muddy End
Friday, May 15, 2026

Join reporter Halle Parker, Amanda Moore of Restore the Mississippi River Delta at the National Wildlife Federation, Christina Lehew, Executive Director of Common Ground Relief, and study co-authors from Tulane University Jesse M. Keenan and Torbjörn E. Törnqvist joined Managing Editor Ko Bragg to discuss the cancellation of Louisiana's landmark Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, what it means for the long-term stability of the coast, and how grassroots organizations are holding the land together for the communities most in harm's way.

Insulating the Energy Poverty Gap
April 23, 2026

Join journalist Amal Ahmed, photographer Chona Kasinger, and Climate & Clean Energy Policy Lead Aqsa Mengal for a virtual conversation about The Margin's feature story, "Insulating the Energy Poverty Gap." This story follows residents caught between the cracks of federal energy assistance programs as Washington State uses its Climate Commitment Act to close the gap — and what's at stake as the Trump administration moves to cut LIHEAP and weatherization funding entirely.

Deserted at the Border
December 16th, 2025

Join reporters Olga Loginova and Carolina Cuellar, and Editor-in-Chief Bryce Cracknell, for a special conversation about our feature story, “Deserted at the Border.” This story follows families living in Arizona’s colonias—rural, predominantly Latino communities— as they navigate medical emergencies, extreme heat, uneven water access, and unpaved roads as their colonias face a looming risk of losing their federal status and the resources that come with it.

Dec. 16, 2025 

Watch the Recoding here.

Pursuing Higher Ground
September 8th, 2025

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In a region still healing from recent devastating floods and bracing for the uncertainties of the upcoming hurricane season, we invite you to a timely and deeply human conversation around Pursuing Higher Ground. Set six months after the hurricane that changed Appalachia when the Cane River flooded, sweeping away lives, homes, and livelihoods, this story follows farmer and teacher Gaelen Corozine and his family in Burnsville, North Carolina, as they pick up the pieces.

Read the story here.

Speakers

Panelist: Christian Monterrosa, Photojournalist
Panelist: Trey Walk, Writer
Panelist: Gaelen Corozine, Famer and Educator
Host: Bryce Cracknell, Founder and Editor in Chief, The Margin

After Allen Field
August 7th, 2025

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Join The Margin and Managing Editor, Ko Bragg, for an urgent conversation about After Allen Field, journalist Amal Ahmed’s deep‑dive into Harris County, Texas’s first mandatory buyout program. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, county officials identified Allen Field—a low‑lying, predominantly Hispanic and Black neighborhood along Greens Bayou—as “hopelessly deep” in the floodplain and paid more than 400 homeowners to leave. Rather than build infrastructure, the land was cleared, leaving vacant lots where families once lived and fracturing the tight‑knit community ties built over generations. As Texas communities reel from the latest Guadalupe River flooding, this discussion couldn’t be more urgent.

Read the story here.

Speakers

Panelist: Amal Ahmed, Journalist - After Allen Field
Panelist: Zoe Middleton, fmr. Harris County staffer, Associate Policy Director at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Panelist: Alice Liu, Co-Director of Communications, Organizing, and Disaster Preparedness with West Street Recovery
Host: Ko Bragg, Managing Editor, The Margin

In Toxic Detention
July 8th, 2025

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Join us for a powerful discussion with journalist Rico Moore, the investigative reporter behind The Margin’s exposé “In Toxic Detention,” and community members directly impacted by Washington’s privately run immigration facility: the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma.

For years, NWDC has operated on a toxic Superfund site, exposing detainees to contaminated soil, groundwater, and air, with ongoing reports of diesel fumes, brown water, and mental health crises behind its walls.

Despite hundreds of complaints and mounting evidence, ICE and GEO Group continue to block public health inspections and deny wrongdoing. This event brings together voices on the frontlines of environmental justice, immigrant rights, and investigative journalism.

Read the story here 

Speakers
Panelist: Rico Moore, Journalist - In Toxic Detention
Panelist: Rufina Reyes, Director of La Resistencia
Panelist: Maru Mora-Villalpando, Founder of La Resistencia
Host: Bryce Cracknell, Editor in Chief & Founder, The Margin