Ridgely Ochs

Ridgely Ochs spent close to four decades working as a journalist in New York, covering health, health care and politics. 

She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for a series on breast cancer and won an Emmy for a yearlong series on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. She was one of the first to report on the health impact on those who worked at Ground Zero. She traveled to Gulfport, Mississippi, following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and in 2010 she went with a team of Haitian-American doctors to Port au Prince days after the earthquake in Haiti.

After moving to the Eastern Shore in 2016, she became an integral member of Talbot Rising, a progressive grass roots group. She was also a founding member of Move the Monument Coalition, whose efforts resulted in the removal of a Confederate statue from the Easton courthouse lawn. 

She graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in English and got her Master's Degree in Communications from Stanford University.