Helena Bottemiller Evich is a senior food and agriculture reporter at POLITICO, where she was recently honored with a James Beard Award for her reporting on climate change. Before joining POLITICO, Helena reported on food politics and policy at Food Safety News. Her work is widely cited and has also appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review and on NBC News. A native of Washington state and an alumna of Claremont McKenna College, she now lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband.