Ruth Dusseault

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist with the Bay City News Foundation, a regional news and wire service for the San Francisco Bay Area. In her reporting, she approaches the engineered systems that undergird modern life experience using film, geography, ethnography and design.While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), she developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. Reporter Bay City News Foundation / UC Berkeley's School of Journalism c'23 / Graduate Instructor, Media Studies, UC Berkeley, 2021 - present / 2022 Education intern, Internews' Earth Journalism Network / 2022 "The Mark Pauline Story" Hybrid Cinema/8Above / 2019-2021 Visiting Professor, Spelman College / 2001-12 Assistant Professor & Artist in Residence, Georgia Tech School of Architecture Awards include California Local Reporting Fellowship, Society for Environmental Journalism, Berkeley Journalism Fellowship, Idea Capital, Artadia Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally, with showings at Boston Center for the Arts, High Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Houston Center for Photography and Bemis Center for the Arts. Screening include The Design Museum London; Duke University College of Computing; Chelsea College of Art London; Ethnografilm Paris; The New School Parsons.