Camalot Todd

Before joining the Nevada Conservation League as the Communications Director, Camalot Todd enjoyed a decade-long career as an award-winning investigative and enterprise reporter in the newspaper, public radio, and TV news, where she won numerous awards for her reporting on mental health and the foster care system including the Nevada Press Association’s Best Investigative Story and Best Community Reporter and Mental Health Advocates of Western New York’s Advocacy Award.

Currently, Camalot oversees the communications department of the Nevada Conservations League and can discuss media and press relations regarding environmentalism and conservationism.

Before, transitioning from journalism to a communications director, she was one of nine reporters nationally to be awarded the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund in 2023 and a National Press Foundation’s 2021 Opioid and Addiction Fellow and was the first Nevadan to join the national nonprofit Report For America. She also taught journalism as the first educator for the Syracuse Journalism Lab and at her alum Report for America.

Camalot can talk about media and democracy, mental health reporting, domestic violence, and substance use; she can also discuss the intersection between the environment and health, developing the next generation of journalists, and reporting during the Trump administration.

She has also been interviewed about her reporting by 60 Minutes, City Cast Las Vegas, NPR affiliates, It's All Journalism, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and more.

Sub-specialties:

As a journalist, Camalot specialized in mental and behavioral health and the intersection of environment and health. She has also reported on domestic violence as a survivor of child abuse herself. She can discuss life after foster care (specifically being placed into fictive care) and navigating professional life coming from an atypical family background.

In her professional role as a journalist, Camalot can discuss work-life balance during the Trump administration, mental health amongst journalists, and how to create a more substantial, more diverse pipeline of local journalists and careers outside of journalism for reporters impacted by layoffs.