Simón Ríos is a recipient of New America's Weather Eye Award for Local Reporting. Ríos is a radio reporter at WBUR, a public radio station in Boston. His reporting has focused on the inequality that manifests itself in many ways across the Greater Boston Area. For the award, he plans to write about how resilience to weather and climate change is undertaken across geographical and class lines. He has three first-place awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association, and an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on the reaction of Boston’s Jewish community to the 2016 presidential election. Originally from Boston, Ríos lives in Dorchester and speaks Spanish at home.