Lexi Krupp is a reporter at Vermont Public and teaches audio journalism at the University of Vermont.

Lexi covers science and health stories at Vermont Public, where she writes a newsletter on all things environment called Out There. She also produces stories for the podcast Brave Little State and her reporting has been picked up by Here & Now and NPR.

She’s currently teaching an audio production course through the Community News Service at the University of Vermont, where she helps students produce stories for broadcast on Vermont Public. She’s also taught radio journalism to middle schoolers at summer camp.

Previously, Lexi was a reporter at a public radio station in northern Michigan, where she started the newsroom’s source tracking project and produced a weekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes. She’s also worked as an independent journalist and fact-checker in New York City. That’s after internships at Gimlet Media, Popular Science, Audubon Magazine and Living Lab Radio.

Her reporting has won a Regional Murrow Award, Hearken’s Champions of Curiosity Award and received an honorable mention at the New York Wild Film Festival and the Environmental Film Festival at Yale.

Before a career in journalism, Lexi worked as a matcha barista and science teacher. And once, she spent a summer tracking mountain goats for the Forest Service.

Get in touch: lkrupp at VermontPublic dot org