Based in North Carolina, Grey Moran is a James Beard Award-winning journalist with expertise in agriculture, climate change, environmental degradation, human rights, and corporate accountability. They currently work as an investigative reporter at Sentient, the only nonprofit newsroom exclusively dedicated to reporting on factory farms, and previously held roles at Civil Eats and Grist.
Moran's reporting and other writing has been published in a wide range of outlets, including The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Intercept, The New Yorker, Guernica, Undark, The Nation, New York Magazine, Mother Jones, The American Prospect, Investigate Midwest, Eater, Teen Vogue, Grist, Autostraddle, and The Center for Public Integrity. Their articles have been anthologized in No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis, published by Haymarket Books, and the Best American Food Writing, edited by Mark Bittman.
Moran has received a 2025 James Beard Award for reporting on farmworker heat protections, a 2024 Covering Climate Now award for an investigation into the byzantine rules of crop insurance, and multiple awards from the North American Agricultural Journalists.