In this episode of the Healthier Workplaces Show Podcast, we interview Connect 2026 Upton Sinclair Lecturer Georgia Gee.
Georgia is currently a researcher at The New York Times. Over the last five years, she has been based in New York and East Africa working on projects across print, digital, podcasts and documentaries. As a freelancer, work appeared in Foreign Policy, The Intercept, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and WIRED. She has been the recipient of grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Georgia spent a year investigating this horrific story of environmental racism and public health neglect. The lead was buried deep. She searched through thousands of documents, archival newspapers and travelled to East Gainesville, Florida to uncover how an elementary school sat on a toxic waste site, and how officials knew and never cleaned it up.
In today’s episode, we will discuss how she came across this story, the reporting process and challenges, including pushback from state agencies, and how in the U.S., this toxic site is not uncommon.
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