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Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative climate journalist who has been on the climate beat for more than 20 years, reporting for a wide range of outlets over the years, including Inside Climate News, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, The Intercept, NPR, and many more. Despite her move into audio in the past 10 years, Amy still reports and writes regularly for a wide range of publications. In 2023 she was named a Covering Climate Now’s Journalist of the Year. Her work has previously received Murrow, ONA, SEJ, Rachel Carson, and Folio awards, as well as a Peabody nomination. You can keep up with her work by following Amy on Mastodon or Twitter as well. Amy is based in Costa Rica.

Alleen Brown is an independent investigative journalist based in New York. Her reporting on state and corporate repression of Indigenous-led Dakota Access Pipeline opponents at Standing Rock has been cited in civil rights cases, reports submitted to international human rights bodies, and more than a dozen books. Her award-winning investigation mapping over 6,500 prisons against heat, wildfire, and flood risk has provided foundational information for organizers and policymakers defining what climate change will mean for mass incarceration. She was previously a staff reporter at The Intercept and has written for Grist, The Guardian, Inside Climate News, The Appeal and other publications.

Mary is known for her essays that dissect and interrogate the climate crisis, drawing heavily on her personal experience as a Black woman with deep roots in the South. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Vox, Rolling Stone, and other outlets. Her work has also been featured in collections like All We Can Save, The World As We Knew It, The Black Agenda, Letters to the Earth, and Not Too Late. With investigative journalist Amy Westervelt, she is also the co-creator of the now-retired Hot Take podcast and newsletter. In 2020, she was selected as the inaugural writer in residence at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and has gone on to teach at Columbia University in New York and Tulane University in New Orleans. In 2020, she received a SEAL Environmental Journalism award. She is based in New Orleans, but her heart is in Mississippi and her soul is in Birmingham.

Molly Taft (they/she) is a freelance journalist. They recently served as a contributing editor on the climate vertical at the New Republic, and were a staff writer reporting on climate, tech, and Big Oil at Gizmodo's Earther blog. Their work has also appeared in outlets including the Center for Public Integrity, The Intercept, Buzzfeed, VICE, and Teen Vogue. They won a 2023 SEAL Environmental Award for their work at Earther, and they earned a master's in journalism from Columbia University, where they were a Stabile investigative fellow. They are based out of New York.

Sarah Ventre is an award-winning audio journalist and senior producer with a focus on religion and the environment. Ventre is best known for her work as host of Unfinished: Short Creek, a podcast about a fundamentalist Mormon community on the Utah-Arizona border named one of the best podcasts of 2020 by The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Her reporting has received an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Wilbur Award, multiple Religion News Association Awards, and an Ambie Award nomination. Sarah has also produced for NPR, PBS, Gimlet, and Campside Media, and is a Regional Producer for The Moth. She's also a journalism fellow with the Recovering Truth project from the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, and a fellow with Boston University's Religion & Environment Storytelling Project. Sarah is based in New York.

Kiana is an Afro-Caribbean oil and gas reporter for Kaieteur News, one of the largest papers in Guyana, and reports for Drilled on the fossil fuel industry in the Latin American Caribbean region. She has been covering the industry since Exxon first announced its discovery of oil in Guyana in 2015 and has published stories in the region for Reuters, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Intercept as well. Kiana is based in Georgetown, Guyana.

Anna is an investigative journalist, podcast producer and fact-checker. She is a former international correspondent for Reuters, AFP and The Daily Telegraph and she specializes in gender, LGBTQIA+ rights and the environment. Her work has been published by The Washington Post, Reuters, TIME Magazine, National Geographic, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, among others. Fluent in Spanish, French, and Italian, Anna has reported extensively in Africa and Latin America. Anna is based in Paris.

Wudan is an award-winning narrative journalist, podcast producer, fact-checker, and entrepreneur. She writes about contrarian characters, unlikely connections, creative solutions, slow-moving crises — or any combination of the above. Her work appears in The Atlantic, The California Sunday Magazine, The Guardian, High Country News, Longreads, MIT Technology Review, National Geographic, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The New York Times, and beyond. Wudan is based in Seattle.

Lyndal Rowlands is a freelance journalist. Her audio journalism can be found on Drilled, Damages, First Eat with Nakkiah Lui: an Audible Original, Life Matters on ABC Radio National and 7am. Her writing has been published by The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Diplomat, SBS and Inter Press Service, where she was a UN Correspondent. Lyndal’s work has been recognised with a UN Correspondents Association prize for climate journalism, a UN Foundation Press Fellowship and a UnionDocs Pod-Pod residency. She’s a member of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, The Science Journalist Association of Australia and the Society of Environmental Journalists. She was born in a valley full of brown coal mines and her favourite sound is a magpie warbling. Lyndal is based in Australia.