Writer. Journalist. Artist.
Arielle Duhaime-Ross is a freelance science journalist, artist, podcast host, and TV host based in Brooklyn, NY.
They were previously a correspondent for VICE News, where they hosted a TV show called Queer Sports, which tackled the many issues LGBTQ Athletes face in sports, as well as two podcasts.
One of the podcasts they hosted for VICE News was the weekly flagship documentary-style show, VICE News Reports. The other was named A Show About Animals, which tackled the controversy surrounding animal language research and Koko the gorilla in its very first season. Animals (as the team called the show internally) won the gold audio award in the 2022 AAAS Kavli Science journalism awards.
Prior to hosting shows for VICE News, Arielle was the host of Vox Media’s Reset, a podcast about technology, science, design and power.
Arielle was also the first climate change correspondent in American nightly TV news. For three years, their reporting appeared on HBO’s VICE News Tonight, an Emmy award-winning nightly newscast, where Arielle covered the politics of climate change, life-threatening instances of environmental contamination, and the effect that global warming is already having on communities worldwide.
During that time, Arielle was awarded the 2019 Science in Society Journalism Award, in the science features category, for a VICE News story they wrote about a predominantly black community living in a poor rural region of Alabama, where failing septic tanks and pools of raw sewage had increased the risk of hookworm and other infectious diseases. Arielle was also the recipient of the Silver 2019 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Spot News/Feature Reporting video category for a VICE News Tonight segment about the unexpected way glaciers are melting in Greenland.
Prior to joining VICE, Duhaime-Ross was a science reporter at The Verge, where they were granted the 2015 Herb Lampert Science in Society Emerging Journalist award for their coverage of a radical 1950s scientist who suggested memory could be stored outside the brain. Duhaime-Ross has written for Scientific American, Nature Medicine, The Atlantic, and Quartz.
Originally from Montreal, Canada, Arielle grew up daydreaming about working with animals and becoming a scientist. They saw that dream through (somewhat!) and obtained a bachelor’s degree in zoology, publishing a peer-reviewed study on salamanders in the process. It was that work that led them to fall in love with science communication. After college, they went on to obtain their master’s degree in science, health, and environmental reporting from New York University.
They also have two CEGEP degrees — degrees no one has heard of outside of Quebec — in classical music and health sciences. Their instrument was the classical guitar, which they refuse to play in public.
When they aren't hosting shows or reporting out stories, they spend most of their time drawing comics, riding their bike, and playing with their two chihuahuas, Reggie and June.
They were previously a correspondent for VICE News, where they hosted a TV show called Queer Sports, which tackled the many issues LGBTQ Athletes face in sports, as well as two podcasts.
One of the podcasts they hosted for VICE News was the weekly flagship documentary-style show, VICE News Reports. The other was named A Show About Animals, which tackled the controversy surrounding animal language research and Koko the gorilla in its very first season. Animals (as the team called the show internally) won the gold audio award in the 2022 AAAS Kavli Science journalism awards.
Prior to hosting shows for VICE News, Arielle was the host of Vox Media’s Reset, a podcast about technology, science, design and power.
Arielle was also the first climate change correspondent in American nightly TV news. For three years, their reporting appeared on HBO’s VICE News Tonight, an Emmy award-winning nightly newscast, where Arielle covered the politics of climate change, life-threatening instances of environmental contamination, and the effect that global warming is already having on communities worldwide.
During that time, Arielle was awarded the 2019 Science in Society Journalism Award, in the science features category, for a VICE News story they wrote about a predominantly black community living in a poor rural region of Alabama, where failing septic tanks and pools of raw sewage had increased the risk of hookworm and other infectious diseases. Arielle was also the recipient of the Silver 2019 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Spot News/Feature Reporting video category for a VICE News Tonight segment about the unexpected way glaciers are melting in Greenland.
Prior to joining VICE, Duhaime-Ross was a science reporter at The Verge, where they were granted the 2015 Herb Lampert Science in Society Emerging Journalist award for their coverage of a radical 1950s scientist who suggested memory could be stored outside the brain. Duhaime-Ross has written for Scientific American, Nature Medicine, The Atlantic, and Quartz.
Originally from Montreal, Canada, Arielle grew up daydreaming about working with animals and becoming a scientist. They saw that dream through (somewhat!) and obtained a bachelor’s degree in zoology, publishing a peer-reviewed study on salamanders in the process. It was that work that led them to fall in love with science communication. After college, they went on to obtain their master’s degree in science, health, and environmental reporting from New York University.
They also have two CEGEP degrees — degrees no one has heard of outside of Quebec — in classical music and health sciences. Their instrument was the classical guitar, which they refuse to play in public.
When they aren't hosting shows or reporting out stories, they spend most of their time drawing comics, riding their bike, and playing with their two chihuahuas, Reggie and June.