Leah Douglas

Location: Washington, D.C.

Education: Brown University

Expertise: Food Policy, Agriculture

Leah is a journalist covering the business and politics of food and agriculture.
She's a staff writer and editor at the Food and Environment Reporting Network.
Leah is also a 2021 U.C. Berkeley 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism fellow.

Experience

Leah Douglas is a journalist covering the business and politics of food and agriculture. Currently a staff writer and associate editor at the Food and Environment Reporting Network, she reports on a wide range of issues, including agribusiness, regulation, federal agencies, corporate consolidation, environmental issues, racial discrimination, and labor. Leah is also a 2021 U.C. Berkeley 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism fellow, focusing on COVID-19. In addition to Serious Eats, her work has appeared in the Guardian, The Nation, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, NPR, Time, and more.

About Serious Eats

Serious Eats, a Dotdash brand, is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.

Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.