Cameron is an internationally awarded environmental justice organizer, oral historian, journalist, and aspiring land steward who is dedicated to re-centering the voices, narratives, and knowledge of historically disinvested communities in conservation, environmental policy, and corporate decision-making. A double alum of Duke University, she has worked for nearly a decade with academic institutions, NGOs, and communities in North Carolina and the Southeast to establish climate education initiatives, leverage institutional power to redistribute resources to frontline organizers and report on the intersections of environmental racism, infrastructure and policy, and land and agriculture.

She is the founder and project lead for the Environmental Justice Oral History Project – a storytelling hub and repository that combines a diverse set of storytelling modalities to provide a comprehensive view of environmental justice in the U.S. South. She is also an advisory board member for the Rural Beacon Initiative and a member of the Warren County Environmental Action Team’s strategic planning committee. Her journalism has appeared in The Nation, The Margin, The Assembly NC, Atmos Magazine, Grist, Southerly, Scalawag, Yale Climate Connections, and Earth in Color. In collaboration with Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, she is currently writing her first book: a primer on the layered history of environmental racism and the under-covered history of Black land ownership, health disparities, and nature access in the U.S.

Cameron is a National Geographic Young Explorer, a Future Leader Climate Fellow with the Aspen Institute, an Environmental Education 30 Under 30 Leader with the North America Association for Environmental Education, a 40 Under 40 Awardee and Lead Prevention Ambassador with Young, Gifted, and Green, a Young Climate Leader of Color Fellow with the People’s Climate Innovation Center, and a Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. She has also been honored by Covering Climate Now, Black in Environment, and the Society of Environmental Journalists as well as featured in the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Broken Ground and NC WUNC’s The Broadside podcasts for her advocacy and environmental justice journalism.

Cameron’s work is inspired by her own connection to ancestral farmland in Maryland that’s been in her family for over 100 years.