Britny Cordera is a published poet, nonfiction writer, and emerging journalist who investigates the intersections between environment, climate change, religion, and ecowomanism. She is interested in investigating how climate change continues to exacerbate the settler-colonial agenda, how it is affecting Black and Indigenous communities, and how we can overcome the climate crisis by giving the sacred back to the land. Twitter: @bcdpoet
Christina Nichol is a teacher and award-winning writer who has taught around the world, including in the republic of Georgia, where her first novel, Waiting for the Electricity, is set. She currently teaches environmental and cultural studies at Sonoma State University. Website: ChristinaNichol.com
Diana Kruzman is a freelance reporter whose work focuses on the intersection of the environment, religion and urbanism. She has written for Undark, Earther, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Vice and the GroundTruth Project and has reported from Albania, India, Kyrgyzstan and the US. Twitter: @DKruzman
Fred Bahnson is the author of Soil & Sacrament (Simon & Schuster). His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Emergence, Oxford American, Orion, The Sun, Notre Dame Magazine, Best American Spiritual Writing, and Best American Travel Writing. He lives in Montana. Twitter: @fredbahnson
Heidi Shin is a public radio + podcast producer based in Boston. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, PRX Snap Judgment, and PRI’s The World, amongst others. She also co-created and produced WGBH/The Ground Truth Project’s “The New American Songbook” whose awards include an ONA, a Webby, and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Twitter: @byheidishin
Kendra Pierre-Louis is senior a climate reporter with the Gimlet/Spotify Podcast How to Save a Planet where her work focuses on climate change solutions. Prior to that she was a climate reporter for The New York Times and a climate reporter for Popular Science. Twitter: @KendraWrites
Liuan Huska is a freelance journalist and writer at the intersection of religion, environment, health, and culture. She lives in the Chicago area, on ancestral Potawatomi land, with her husband and three children. Twitter: @LiuanHuska
Molly Olmstead is a reporter at Slate who primarily covers religion and politics. She has worked at Slate since 2016, where she reported on news and politics, often with a focus on the South. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. Twitter: @MollyOlmstead
Sarah Ventre is an audio journalist based in Phoenix and host of Unfinished: Short Creek, a podcast about a fundamentalist Mormon community. As part of her reporting, Sarah embedded in Short Creek and lived in former FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs’ house. The show was named #3 best podcast of 2020 by The New Yorker. Twitter: @sarazonah
Sigal Samuel is a Senior Reporter for Vox, where she writes (and talks—on the Future Perfect podcast) about AI, climate change, and the intersection of technology with ethics and religion. She was the religion editor at The Atlantic and is the author of two books, including the award-winning novel The Mystics of Mile End. Twitter: @SigalSamuel
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Selected from more than fifty competitive applications, the ten fellows form a cohort that will meet for all-expenses-paid workshops in Annapolis, Maryland, in early October and again in Houston, Texas, in the spring.
“We’re excited about having such an amazing group of emerging and established journalists. We’re hopeful that they will help change the conversation about the nexus of religion, spirituality and the environment as we all face the ongoing climate crisis,” said Stephen Prothero, RESP co-director and the C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor of Religion in America in the Department of Religion at Boston University.
RESP training will help these journalists, who work in a variety of media, to bridge the divide between the religion and science beats, and promote new thinking and new narratives that will inform and educate the public, especially on the climate crisis.
“The latest IPCC report reveals that the science is definitive: the climate crisis is already affecting every corner of the globe,” said Meera Subramanian, RESP co-director, award-winning journalist and past president of SEJ. “But it will depend upon human values, ethical priorities and faith-based decision-making to determine how we will respond, and how quickly. These are the missing stories that RESP hopes to foster.”
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