Clare Fieseler

Roles: Special Guest

Clare Fieseler is a science reporter and filmmaker who contributes to a variety of outlets including The Guardian, Scientific American, and Mother Jones magazine. She wrote and produced the 2025 documentary, NODULES, for which is screening at DCEFF this year. After a decade working as an ocean scientist, Clare discovered journalism in 2019 through a reporting fellowship at The Washington Post. Since then, she’s covered clean energy for Politico and climate change for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2024, she won the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications, the largest prize in science journalism. She received a PhD in ecology from UNC Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in environmental management from Duke University.