MEDIA

My work and perspectives on birds, conservation, and inclusion in the outdoors have been featured across various media outlets and publications. Select features are highlighted below.

Research

All about Birds: Cornell Lab of Ornithology – “The Hole Story: How Woodpeckers Make Homes for the Rest of the Forest”
NCSU College of Natural Resource News – “Natural resources Student Conducts Research to Save Threatened Bird Species from Extinction”
PBS SciNC – “This Bird Still Needs our Help.”
Three Rivers Land Trust Campfire Conversations – “’Way “Pharr” Up.”’

Outreach

North Carolina Botanical Garden – “Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: The Red-cockaded Woodpecker: A Fire Specialist in Peril”
Mountaineer Chapter of National Audubon – “Birds and Beyond: A Conversation with Lauren D. Pharr”
North Carolina Wildlife Federation – “Birding Basics with Lauren Pharr”
Harris Center – “How Urbanization effects Wild Bird Species with Researcher Lauren Pharr”
North Carolina Sea Grant: Ecology, Psychology, and the Art of Being You: An Interview with J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur Fellow

Inclusion

Living Bird Magazine: Cornell Lab of Ornithology – “Field Inclusive: A Small Nonprofit Aims to Make Fieldwork Safe for All”
Garden&Gun –“Birds of a Feather: Murry Burgess and Lauren D. Pharr”
National Wildlife Federation – “Meet Lauren Pharr of Field Inclusive.”
Birdnote – “Lauren Pharr on Being a Black Field Biologist.”
News&Observer -“NC State Scientists work to raise awareness of Black, disabled field researchers.”
WUNC 91.5 – “Black Birders harness Social Media to Push for Field Safety”