Ariel Rubissow Okamoto
WRITER & EDITOR
About Me
I write about the environment, climate, and water. I focus on stories and science about people doing good, cherishing our planet, thinking big picture, challenging assumptions. I also help organizations communicate priorities and findings in reports. I live in San Francisco, walk everywhere, enjoy stormwatching. Bliss is a dry-farmed tomato. Misery is a sentence with the verb at the end of it.
MY WORK
Articles
Writer for a variety of regional publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle and Bay Nature. Editor-in-chief of the Estuary News Group, which publishes KneeDeep Times, a climate resilience magazine, and Estuary News.
Books
Author of several books about Golden Gate National Park, and co-author of the Natural History of San Francisco Bay, which was published by the University of California Press.
Reports
Editor of dozens of water management and environmental reports for organizations ranging from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife and the Delta Stewardship Council to Santa Clara County’s Valley Water.
Commentary
Author of published opinion pieces on homelessness, nature, farming, wildfire, mixed race marriages, and climate change, and on such critical topics such as the color of Hillary Clinton’s tights.
Video & Audio
Recent experimentation with storytelling about restoration work via imagery and interviews.
Special Projects
Current special projects include Acclimatewest.org, a multi-media platform telling stories about sea level rise from the point of view of shoreline communities, an update to the Natural History of SF Bay book, and a memoir about the family farm in the Napa Valley.