Jerry Refern
CEJ Ambassador

Visual journalist Jerry Redfern covers the environmental and humanitarian issues across Southeast Asia and other developing regions. His work ranges from the aftermath ofÌýAmerican bombs in LaosÌýtoÌýagroforestry in BelizeÌýto life amidÌýlogging in Borneo. Jerry’s photos have appeared inÌýThe New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes,ÌýandÌýDer Spiegel, among others. He has contributed to four book projects, includingÌýEternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in LaosÌý(co-authored with Karen Coates), which was a finalist for the IRE Book Award.

After graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of Montana, he spent several years as a staff photographer at newspapers in the American West. He began his freelance career in Cambodia where he shot news, features and investigative stories for Agence France-Presse, The New York Times, The Cambodia Daily and other publications. These days he works withÌývideo as well as photos, and he is in the final stages of post-production on his first feature-length documentary film, Eternal Harvest, an extension of the book project.

Jerry was a 2012-2013ÌýTed Scripps Fellow in Environmental JournalismÌýat the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at ÐßÐßÊÓƵ and a Senior Fellow at theÌýSchuster Institute for Investigative JournalismÌýat Brandeis University.