Rosanna Xia

Rosanna Xia is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in coastal and ocean stories. Her journalism has inspired new laws and regulations, and her acclaimed book, “California Against the Sea,” received the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, a California Literary Awards gold medal, and a special citation from the Library of Congress, among other honors. She has been praised for her investigative journalism and storytelling, and her coverage of a toxic waste dump deep in the ocean was included in the anthology “Best American Science and Nature Writing.” Xia’s latest project, the feature-length documentary “Out of Plain Sight,” is a cinematic expansion of one of her most impactful environmental reports. The film has received numerous awards at film festivals, including the Audience Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Jackson Wild Media Award for Best Investigative Documentary.