Roxanne Scott
Senior Producer
Senior Producer
Roxanne Scott is a senior producer at Futuro Media. Previously, she was a reporter at public radio stations in Georgia and Kentucky, where she reported on topics including disparities in gifted and talented enrollment, voting in communities of color and the spread of COVID in ICE detention centers. She received a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to report on food and health in Nigeria. As an International Women’s Media Foundation Fellow, she worked on stories about voting and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is a graduate of the CUNY School of Journalism. Her 2022 data project is focused on carbon monoxide poisoning in communities of color.
The use of publicly available data allowed me to tell a story that went beyond one building in Harlem. I was able to report a larger story about how unsafe housing in New York City can lead to devastating health outcomes.
After a night out, Efrain Sarmiento fell asleep on the couch in his one-bedroom apartment. In the middle of the night, he woke up to the smell of smoke. He didn’t hear any fire alarms go off.
Una de las imágenes que Efraín Sarmiento recuerda tras el incendio en su apartamento de Harlem son las renegridas huellas de manos hechas de hollín, impresas en las paredes del complejo.
A new reporting project on carbon monoxide poisoning in New York will analyze CO-related housing violations in New York City. Who is responsible when it comes to ensuring residents have detectors?
Latino and Black renters, regardless of income, make up the highest percentage of tenants with maintenance deficiencies that can affect their health, according to public data.