Leonie Düngefeld is a trainee editor at KULTURAUSTAUSCH, a magazine that presents perspectives from all around the globe on cultural and political issues. She has been working as a freelance journalist for newspapers and media projects such as Tagesspiegel Background and Table.Media. As an alumna of Maastricht University and the French-German University (DFH) she holds a Master's degree in Intercultural and European Studies. In her work as a journalist she focuses on intercultural relations, European politics as well as climate and energy topics. Leonie is based in Berlin. She will use the Transatlantic Media Fellowship to investigate the political, social and environmental dimensions of Hydraulic fracturing (Fracking) in the United States.