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Emily Schwing is a senior reporter for KYUK Alaska Public Media, an NPR affiliate. She has worked in Alaska for nearly two decades, covering rural affairs, Indigenous communities, climate change and the occasional sled dog race. In the last two years, she has focused her work on Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. In 2018, her investigation of the impacts of clergy sex abuse in Western Alaska won a first place Best of the West award for audio storytelling and best investigative/enterprise reporting award from the Public Media Journalists Association (formerly PRNDI). She also shared a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2021 as a member of the New York Times’ Coronavirus Tracking team. She has a bachelor’s degree in geology and environmental studies from Carleton College.