Salina Arredondo

Salina Arredondo is a Portland-based contributing writer and audio producer for Public Health Watch. She was the senior producer of “Fumed,” Public Health Watch’s debut podcast featured statewide by Texas Public Radio and selected by NPR for its New & Noteworthy category. She has won top honors from the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the National Press Foundation and the Association of Health Care Journalists as part of Public Health Watch’s environment team, whose reporting prompted a new bill in the Texas legislature last year aimed at curbing benzene pollution in Channelview, Texas. Her work has been published by outlets including KVPR and Business Insider. She earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.