Bio

My name is Questen Inghram and I am a journalist currently based in central Washington. ​I grew up surrounded by alfalfa and wheat fields in rural Montana, spending my childhood looking for bugs, reading books and bird hunting. My first job out of high school was as a reporter for my local weekly newspaper.

That experience nudged me to major in journalism at Western Washington University, where I wrote for and edited student publications and was a radio DJ. ​

In 2023, at the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia University, I studied the media landscape from book publishing to magazine and digital publishing. Throughout the workshop, I learned from industry leaders. ​

I worked variously as a wildland firefighter and bookseller before becoming a part of the inaugural class of Washington State University Murrow News Fellows, where I was embedded with the Yakima Herald-Republic and El Sol de Yakima in Yakima, Washington. ​In this position, my stories frequently centered on water management and drought, agriculture, immigration, elections, local government and feature profiles.

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