Prior to joining VCE, Alden Wicker was an independent journalist and author for 12 years. Winner of the 2024 Society for Environmental Journalists Rachel Carson Book Award for To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick — and How We Can Fight Back (Putnam), she has gone viral on TikTok, appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air, and has written about sustainable living for publications such as The New York Times, BBC, Mongabay News, Wired, and more. She has a B.A in Communications and a B.S. in Business Administration from Washington & Lee University.
Thrilled to bring her talent for science communication to VCE, Alden’s interest in nature stems from her childhood rambling through her family’s 180 acres of pine forest in central North Carolina, and attending an environmentally-focused summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains. After 15 years in New York City, she is attempting to (sustainably) renovate an old farmhouse in southern Vermont, and responsibly steward the nine acres of rural forestland it sits on.
