I am an interdisciplinary science communicator, educator, and social-marine scientist.
I currently work full time as a science communicator for the San Francisco Estuary Institute, a world-class environmental research nonprofit. In this inagural role, I daylight crucial studies and stories about clean water and coastal resilience in California's Bay Area. In addition, I serve as Community Engagement Officer in a volunteer capacity for REEF Scuba, an organization dedicated to harnessing the collective power of the global dive community to support coral reefs. My capacity for additional freelance projects is extremely limited.
My writing has been published in local, regional, national, and international publications such as Grist, JSTOR Daily, the Oxford Climate Review, and Wired. From 2021-2022, I worked as an assistant editor for Estuary News Magazine and the KneeDeep Times, two regional open-access publications based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As a 2022-2023 Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellow, I focused on research and storytelling about coral restoration off the Caribbean coast of Honduras in the Bay Islands.
To learn more about my non-journalistic work, including science education consultation and social-marine science research, please contact me at sierra.garcia@alumni.stanford.edu.
I was proudly born and raised in Monterey County on California's Central Coast, and am an alum of Stanford University's Earth Systems program (M.A. '20, B.Sci. '18).
In 2022, I was featured on the second season of the podcast 21st Century Mermaids alongside three colleagues from the US Youth Advisory Council for the UN Ocean Decade.
