Kendra Pierre-Louis

Kendra Pierre-Louis is an American climate reporter and journalist. She currently works at Gimlet Media as a reporter and producer on the podcast How to Save a Planet, featuring Alex Blumberg and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.[1][2][3]

Career

Pierre-Louis previously worked at The New York Times and Popular Science.[4][5] Her work has also appeared in Aeon, FiveThirtyEight, Sierra, InsideClimate News, Newsweek and The Washington Post.[2] She also worked as a researcher for Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm.[6]

Her 2012 book, Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet, argues that individual action and consumption capitalism do not support climate action.[7][8][9] It was reviewed positively by Climate and Capitalism reviewer Ian Angus.[8] Kirkus Reviews called the book "a slim but revealing investigation."[10]

Pierre-Louis was a featured author in the book All We Can Save, contributing an essay examining what the fictional country of Wakanda can teach about climate adaptation.[11][12][13]

Personal life

Pierre-Louis is a first-generation American born to Haitian parents, and was raised speaking Spanish and Haitian Creole.[14]

She has a Master of Science in Science Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Art in Sustainable Development from the SIT Graduate Institute, and a Bachelor of Art in Economics from Cornell University.[2] During her graduate studies, she received a Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowship for science writing.[15]

She has repeatedly criticized mayonnaise,[3][14] going so far as to publish an essay in Popular Science in 2017, calling the condiment "disgusting".[16]

Awards and recognition

Pierre-Louis received a "Sagebrush Country Institute Fellowship" in 2015,[17] and a "Bringing Home the World Fellowship" from the International Center for Journalists in 2016.[7] In 2017, Pierre-Louis was selected by the National Press Foundation for national environmental journalist training.[18] In 2020, Pierre-Louis was named "Science Writer in Residence" by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[19]

In 2019 Bustle named her one of its "25 Climate Scientists and Experts to Follow on Twitter" for climate information.[20] She also delivered the keynote speech at the 2019 Oppenheimer Media Ethics Symposium at the University of Idaho.[21]

References
  1. "The Haitian Roundtable » Kendra Pierre-Louis". Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  2. "Kendra Pierre-Louis". MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  3. "OFF TOPIC: Ex-NYT climate reporter fights 'doom' and 'gloom'". www.eenews.net. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  4. "Kendra Pierre-Louis, SM '16". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  5. Staff. "Kendra Pierre-Louis Shares What It's Like To Be A New York Times Climate Reporter". www.boisestatepublicradio.org. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  6. "Green Washed – Ig Publishing". Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  7. "Kendra Pierre-Louis". International Center for Journalists. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  8. Angus, Ian (March 5, 2012). "Green Washed: Why we can't buy our way to a green planet | Climate & Capitalism". Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  9. Staff, Ashley Soliman | (November 21, 2020). "Weekender | Sustainable, ethical consumption and the environment, a non sequitur". The Daily Californian. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  10. GREEN WASHED | Kirkus Reviews.
  11. "Contributors". All We Can Save. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  12. "How Movies Like 'Black Panther' Could Help Us Save the Planet". Time. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  13. "Listen: What Wakanda can teach us about climate change". Grist. October 30, 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  14. "Threshold Conversations with Kendra Pierre-Louis". Threshold. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  15. "Five awarded Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowships for 2015–16 | Council for the Advancement of Science Writing". casw.org. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  16. "Mayonnaise is disgusting, and science agrees". Popular Science. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  17. "Sagebrush Fellows". Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  18. "20 Journalists Chosen for Environmental Training". National Press Foundation. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  19. "Gimlet's Kendra Pierre-Louis to visit virtually as Science Writer in Residence". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  20. "25 Climate Scientists & Experts To Follow On Twitter If You Want To Stay Informed". Bustle. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  21. "2019 Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium". www.uidaho.edu. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
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