Covering Climate Change

• Introduction: Sean Harder, communications officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Gina McCarthy, director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE) and former administrator of the EPA (2013-2017)
• Moderator: Vanessa Hauc, senior correspondent for Noticias Telemundo and co-founder of Sachamama, a nonprofit that educates the Latino community about climate issues and sustainable behavior

Discussion

Q & A

• Dr. Aaron Bernstein, co-director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE), pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
• Cristine Russell, science journalist, adjunct lecturer in public policy and a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and in the Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Lori Weigel, principal and founder of New Bridge Strategy
• Moderator: Susan Joy Hassol, director of Climate Communication

• Natalia Linos, executive director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
• George Luber, epidemiologist and former head of the CDC’s Climate and Health Program
• Dr. Mary Rice, pulmonary and critical care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Moderator: Martha Bebinger, WBUR health care reporter and a 2010 Nieman Fellow

• Elliot Diringer, executive vice president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)
• Peter Shumlin, former governor of Vermont and a fall 2019 Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Chris Wheat, director of strategy and city engagement for the American Cities Climate Challenge at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a program supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies
• Moderator: Ashley Smart, associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT

• Saya Ameli Hajebi, a climate activist in Boston and co-leader of media for the Boston chapter of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-lead organization confronting climate change
• Amalia Hochman, co-leader of the Massachusetts Youth Climate Strike
• James Healy, member of the 2019-20 cohort of the Harvard Climate Leaders Program and co-leader of media for the Boston chapter of the Sunrise Movement
• Moderator: Aleszu Bajak, a science and data journalist and graduate programs manager at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism

• Susan Joy Hassol, director of Climate Communication
• Sean Sublette, meteorologist for Climate Central’s Climate Matters program

• Alex Harris, climate change reporter for the Miami Herald
• David Bornstein, co-founder and CEO of the Solutions Journalism Network
• Lisa Friedman, climate change reporter at The New York Times
• Moderator: Jeff Brady, NPR national desk correspondent based in Philadelphia

• John D. Sutter, National Geographic Explorer, CNN climate analyst, “BASELINE” director
• Rosanna Xia, environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times
• Emily Atkin, founder of the newsletter HEATED