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Michaela Haas

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  • Contributing Editor, Columnist and Author, Freelance
Los Angeles
As seen in: Medium, MSN, The New York Times, Yahoo Life, HuffPost, The Guardian, Aol, Psychology Today, Yahoo Finance UK, Al Jazeera English and
Covers:  Solutions, health, mental health, climate crisis, environment
Doesn't Cover: Sports
Award-winning reporter. Author of 5 non-fiction books. Editor@RTB_Cheerful/Columnist@SZ/michaela.substack.com/michaelahaas.bsky.social
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Michaela Haas’s Biography

Michaela Haas, Ph.D., is an award-winning reporter and author of five non-fiction books, most recently Bouncing Forward: The Art & Science of Cultivating Resilience (Atria). She is a contributing editor for David Byrne’s Reasons to be Cheerful and for Rotary International Magazine, and a columnist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, while she also works as a freelance West Coast reporter for international media. In the U.S., her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, Al Jazeera, the Huffington Post, CBS, and numerous other reputable media. Recent awards include First Place in Solutions Journalism from the Los Angeles Press Club 2025, Professional Excellence Award 2022-2023 from the Foreign Press Correspondents Association & Club (AFPC-USA), First Place Columnist 2023 from the Los Angeles Press Club, Winner ASJA Health Writing 2022, First Place Environmental Reporting 2020 from the Los Angeles Press Club, a.o. Find her at www.MichaelaHaas.com