Staff writer Garden departs Trellis

Leah Garden

Leah Garden, a staff writer at Trellis, formerly GreenBiz Group, has left the news organization.

Garden is a policy, climate and tech journalist and the former Environment Fellow with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.

She has written for The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Modern Farmer, and others, reporting on topics ranging from the sustainability of bioengineered food to the possibility of growing meat during long-haul space missions.

She has a master’s degree in Sustainability Management from American University and is an alumna of the Freeman College of Management at Bucknell University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.