Josie Heimsoth
Science Journalist
About Jocelyn "Josie" Heimsoth
Josie Heimsoth is a senior at the University of Missouri - Columbia studying journalism and environmental science. She has reported for the Columbia Missourian, Vox Magazine, The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk and Decoding Science. Josie was also the president of Science, Health and Environmental Journalism at MU.
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Last summer, she was selected to be the first undergraduate intern at the MU Center for Regenerative Agriculture. She will be creating social media content and freelancing articles with a sustainable agriculture focus.
In addition to working at the Center, Josie is a reporting assistant for the Watchdog Writers Group. She will assist journalist Sarah Smarsh with research for her book about North America’s most endangered ecosystem, the tallgrass prairie.