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On today’s episode, we talk with Kendra Pierre-Louis, climate journalist about Climate Science, Journalism, and Working Backwards to get to Your Career. Read her full bio below.
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Showtimes:
1:40 - ChatGpt Weighing in
8:01 - Interview with Kendra Starts
19:44 - What does it mean being a Journalist in this moment
33:19 - Accepting Supremacy of Natural Systems
35:30 - #Fieldnotes with Kendra
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Connect with Kendra Pierre-Louis at https://www.kendrawrites.com/
Guest Bio:
Kendra Pierre-Louis is an award-winning climate reporter. She has worked as climate reporter with Bloomberg, a senior climate reporter with the Gimlet/Spotify podcast How to Save a planet, and as a staff writer for Popular Science. She is also the author of the book, "Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet."
Kendra is a recipient of the 2023 New York Press Club Award for the audio story, “Sandy Was Just the Start. Is New York City Building Resiliently Enough for What’s Coming Next?” and a 2022 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. She received the gold award in the magazine category for her story "How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities in MIT Technology Review.
Kendra has an MS in Science Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in Sustainable Development from the SIT Graduate Institute and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.
Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller
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