CHLOE SHRAGER
About Me.
I am a California-based journalist currently reporting on county government for the San Luis Obispo Tribune, a local McClatchy newspaper on the Central Coast. I also write about nuclear risk for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as an editorial fellow and have previously covered breaking news for the San Francisco Chronicle.
I graduated from Stanford with Political Science degree, concentrating on nuclear weapons policy, human rights and journalism. I am driven by a profound passion for utilizing journalism as a tool for global change, particularly as an international and investigative reporter.
My junior year at Stanford, I spent a six months reporting my first investigative feature on the Marshall Islands nuclear legacy.
In my free time, you'll likely find me outdoors — surfing on the Central Coast, ski coaching in Lake Tahoe, leading backpacking and camping expeditions as a certified trip leader, or playing rugby.
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Forgotten Fallout.
Forgotten Fallout.
As one of two undergraduate recipients of Stanford's Steve Steinberg Reporting Award, I traveled to the Marshall Islands, Arkansas, Oahu and New York to report on the ongoing impacts of the United States' mid-century nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall Islands amid the renegotiation of a key international treaty, the Compact of Free Association.
I studied this history for years prior independently and in my nuclear weapons policy and justice classes. My six-month investigation took me to places few other journalists have ever been on Majuro (the capital of the Marshall Islands), Ebeye Island and the U.S. military base on Kwajalein Atoll. I spoke to countless members of Marshallese parliament and community advocates, including some of the last remaining survivors of radioactive exposure to nuclear fallout who had never been interviewed before. I conducted in-depth archival research to uncover previously unreported, declassified government documents.
My investigative feature was published Inkstick Media with original photojournalism and maps.