Emilia Askari is a journalist with more than 20 years experience on the staffs of large newspapers including the Detroit Free Press, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Miami Herald. While reporting stories from windswept tip of Tierra del Fuego to the cozy den of a sleeping Michigan black bear, Emilia won more than a dozen prizes and fellowships, including a Knight Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Since September, she's been a master's student at the university's School of Information. Emilia also teaches environmental journalism as an adjunct lecturer for the university's Program in the Environment and School of Natural Resources and Environment.