Molly Peterson

Reporter

Awards

  • 2008: L.A. Press Club Investigative/Series, Radio
  • 2006: Society of Environmental Journalists award, Radio Reporting
  • 2003: Public Radio News Directors Inc. award, Best Series
  • 2002: Gracie Award, for "Working Women"
  • 2002: Association of Women in Radio and Television award, for "Present at the Creation"
  • 2002: AP Northern California Regional Award, for The California Report

Molly Peterson came to KPCC from New Orleans, where she lived after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She came to public radio after UC Hastings College of the Law, interning for Nina Totenberg during the Clinton impeachment hearings. In between, she worked at National Public Radio, at KQED's California Report, and at American Routes. With Eve Troeh, she made a nationally-aired radio documentary about New Orleans called Finding Solid Ground.

She studied international politics and the environment at Georgetown University, and was fortunate never to take a law school class from her tough-grading grandfather, Raymond Sullivan, who taught at Hastings after leaving the California Supreme Court in 1977. She was also lucky enough to grow up climbing northern California trees and fishing eastern Sierra waters.

She's always looking for recommendations about where to take her (repaired) sea kayak. And for that matter, where to store it.

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Recent Stories

1 clean truck program, 2 ports, and now 2 strategies Nov. 19, 2009
Long Beach officials, environmentalists seek to unsettle port settlement with trucking industry Nov. 16, 2009
Empty debris basins wait for Station Fire's winter impact Nov. 16, 2009
Southland legislators will sell their constituents and themselves on $11 billion water bond Nov. 13, 2009
A preferred alternative nobody prefers for South Coast marine protected areas Nov. 11, 2009
State panel recommends coastal water areas designed to protect marine life Nov. 11, 2009
Ninth Circuit panel halts Eagle Mountain landfill Nov. 10, 2009
Task force to decide on marine protected areas in Point Dume, Palos Verdes, Laguna Nov. 9, 2009
Water bill signing ceremony celebrates historic package, promotes future legislation Nov. 7, 2009
Compromise plan at water board brings sewers to some of Malibu Nov. 6, 2009
City of Malibu seeks septic tank solutions Nov. 4, 2009
LA County weighs in on MPAs: Yes in Malibu, no at Rocky Point Nov. 3, 2009
Green buildings grow on Skid Row Nov. 3, 2009
Federal regulators take over California National Bank Oct. 30, 2009
Panel pushes decision about marine protected areas to November Oct. 23, 2009