Molly Forster is an Emmy and SPJ award winning investigative reporter and video producer.
She recently graduated from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on investigative reporting, video production, and health and environment reporting. She's currently working as a Producer and Investigative Reporter for the Showtime documentary-series "BURIED," and as an Investigative Producer at the LA-based production company, AMPLE.
She started her journalism career as an intern-turned-reporter for the award-winning Santa Barbara Independent, where she covered everything from food and beverage, to ageism and drug rehabilitation. Since then, she has worked on NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit and UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program and her work has appeared on publications such as SHOWTIME, FRONTLINE, STAT News, The Desert Sun, East Bay Express, Yale Climate Connections, Hoodline, and Mission Local.
As an undergraduate, she studied communications and professional writing/editing at the University of Santa Barbara, California.
Molly's reporting interests are health, climate change, and police and criminal justice corruption. She speaks Spanish, enjoys hiking and surfing, and is generally a Californian a cliché.