Samantha Baars

Digital Content Manager

A longtime follower of environmental news, Samantha reported on some during her time as a reporter at C-VILLE Weekly. Now as SELC’s Digital Content Manager, she uses her many talents to share the organization’s news with our online audiences. A highlight of her work at SELC is visiting people and places we’ve helped protect.

Samantha grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Shenandoah Valley and now calls Charlottesville home. She is grateful for the many ways her work has informed her perspective on what it means to be from and for the South.

• Former news reporter, C-VILLE Weekly
• B.A., James Madison University
• Content creator, John C. Wells Planetarium
• Underground tour guide, Grand Caverns
• With SELC since 2019