Biography

Diana Taremwa Karakire is a freelance environmental journalist based in Uganda. She holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Communication from Makerere University. She has over six years of experience writing on climate change, extractives and indigenous people, conservation, renewable energy, food security, gender, and human rights. In 2020, she was among the eight young journalists in Africa to participate in the Climate Tracker Environment reporting fellowship. She is also a 2021 gender justice fellow with the International women’s media foundation and a 2022 and 2021 indigenous stories grantee with EJN. Her work has been published by Equal Times, Ubuntu Times, Africa Business Magazine, Climate Tracker and the Earth Journalism Network. She has undergone several trainings including on data journalism, climate reporting, reporting on minority groups and gender reporting. Diana is the National Population Council of Uganda's 2022 Environmental Journalist of the Year award recipient.