Paige Pfleger

Paige Pfleger is a reporter at WOSU News, central Ohio’s NPR station. Before joining the staff of WOSU, she worked in the newsrooms of NPR, Vox, Michigan Radio, WHYY and The Tennessean. She spent three years in Philadelphia covering health, science, and gender, and her work has appeared nationally in The Washington Post, Marketplace, Atlas Obscura and more. As a freelancer, Paige traveled to Puerto Rico to cover how the island’s agricultural community dealt with damage from Hurricane Maria.


farmers

After Maria, Puerto Rican women farmers work together to build resilience

Environment

Hurricane Maria decimated many of Puerto Rico’s small farms. But soon afterward, a group of mostly women farmers came together to start helping each other learn how to farm more sustainably.