About Sharon

Sharon is a Boulder-based environmental journalist and co-author of the new book, Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America (Island Press). She earned a 2022 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award, and she spent the 2019-2020 academic year as a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. Sharon has reported for numerous outlets, most recently covering U.S. West climate issues for The Hill from 2021-2025. Sharon came to Colorado after nearly a decade in Israel, where she primarily reported on environment, energy and agriculture for The Jerusalem Post. Her work has also appeared in Ensia, The Colorado Sun, MSNBC, The Forward, National Geographic News, The Jewish Chronicle, The NY Jewish Week, Hadassah Magazine and Condé Nast Traveller. Sharon was honored by The Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership and the Pratt Foundation in 2013 for the breadth of her environmental journalism work. In addition, she co-lectured an undergraduate course in media studies in both 2015 and 2017.

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After growing up in East Brunswick, New Jersey, Sharon earned a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and an MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2008. She enjoys spending time with her husband and two elementary school-aged children, as well as running, playing tennis, reading, gardening and looking at mountains.