Emily Atkin is an environmental reporter and writer, best known for founding the daily climate newsletter HEATED. [1] [2] [3] [4] She also launched a podcast by the same name to explore the intersectional issues highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. [4]
Previously she was a reporter for The New Republic and ThinkProgress . [2] [5] She is a contributor to the anthology All We Can Save , edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson, [1] and a columnist at MSNBC. [6]
Atkin was raised in New York, and went to school at State University of New York at New Paltz for journalism. [4]
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, referred to mononymously as Kennedy, is an American libertarian political commentator, radio personality, author, and former MTV VJ. She is a commentator on Fox News Channel, a primary guest host of Fox's Outnumbered and The Five, host of the podcast Kennedy Saves The World on Fox News Radio and a columnist for The Daily Mail. Kennedy was the host of MTV's now-defunct daily late-night alternative-rock program Alternative Nation throughout much of the 1990s. She hosted Kennedy on the Fox Business Network from 2015 to 2023.
Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a weekday podcast that originated as an hour-long weeknight news and political commentary program hosted by Keith Olbermann that aired on MSNBC from 2003 to 2011 and on Current TV from 2011 to 2012. The show presented five selected news stories of the day, with commentary by Olbermann and interviews of guests. At the start of Countdown, Olbermann told television columnist Lisa de Moraes:
Our charge for the immediate future is to stay out of the way of the news. ... News is the news. We will not be screwing around with it. ... As times improve and the war [in Iraq] ends we will begin to introduce more and more elements familiar to my style.
Samuel Lincoln Seder is an American actor, left-wing political commentator, and media host. His works include the film Who's the Caboose? (1997) as well as the television shows Beat Cops (2001) and Pilot Season (2004). He also appeared in Next Stop Wonderland (1998) and made guest appearances on Spin City (1997), Sex and the City (2000), America Undercover (2005), and Maron (2015). Since 2010, he has hosted a daily political talk show, The Majority Report with Sam Seder. He also voices Hugo, a recurring character on the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers.
The Hill, founded in 1994, is an American newspaper and digital media company based in Washington, D.C..
Nicolle Wallace is an American television political commentator and author. She is the anchor of the MSNBC news and politics program Deadline: White House and a former co-host of the ABC daytime talk show The View. Wallace is a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. She was previously a frequent on-air contributor to the programs Today, The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, and Morning Joe, before hosting her own program on MSNBC.
Christopher Loffredo Hayes is an American political commentator, television news anchor, and author. Hayes hosts All In with Chris Hayes, a weekday news and opinion television show on MSNBC. Hayes also hosts a weekly MSNBC podcast, Why Is This Happening? Hayes formerly hosted a weekend MSNBC show, Up with Chris Hayes. He is an editor-at-large of The Nation magazine.
Molly Jong-Fast is an American writer, journalist, author, political commentator, and podcaster.
Krystal Marie Ball is an American political commentator and media host. She was previously a political candidate, as well as a television host at MSNBC, a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, and a co-host of The Hill's Rising along with Saagar Enjeti. In May 2021, Ball and Enjeti announced that they were leaving the show in order to launch their own independent project titled Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar. Ball is a co-host with her husband Kyle Kulinski on the podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends. She has made guest appearances on networks such as CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and programs including Real Time with Bill Maher.
Alicia Jacobsen Menendez is an American television commentator, host and writer. She is the author of the book The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are (2019), and is an anchor for MSNBC. From 2020 to 2024, she was host of American Voiceswith Alicia Menendez on Saturdays and Sundays on MSNBC. She is also a contributing editor at Bustle and host of its Latina to Latina podcast. Formerly, she was a correspondent on the PBS show Amanpour & Company and the host of Come Here and Say That on Fusion. Prior to that she was a host and producer at HuffPost Live. She is the daughter of United States Senator Bob Menendez.
Catherine Merri "Katie" Pavlich is an American conservative commentator, author, blogger, and podcaster.
April Danielle Ryan is an American reporter, author, and White House Correspondent for The Grio. In 2023 Ryan joined MSNBC as a political contributor.
Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg is an American journalist and author. She was a reporter for The New York Times covering environment and climate change, and has also written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post,Vanity Fair, and Bloomberg among others. She is the author of the book Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have published in 2019.
Heather Charisse McGhee is a New York Times bestselling author and policy advocate. She is a former president and currently a trustee emeritus of Demos, a non-profit progressive U.S. think tank. McGhee is a regular contributor to NBC News and frequently appears as a guest and panelist on Meet the Press, All In with Chris Hayes, and Real Time with Bill Maher.
Annie Karni is an American journalist who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. She is a contributor on MSNBC.
Katharine K. Wilkinson is an American writer, climate change activist, and executive director and co-founder of The All We Can Save Project, a climate leadership organization. She co-hosts the podcast A Matter of Degrees with Leah Stokes. Previously, Wilkinson served as editor-in-chief of The Drawdown Review at Project Drawdown and was the senior writer for The New York Times bestseller Drawdown, which documents the "what is possible" approach for addressing climate change. Time named her one of 15 "women who will save the world" in 2019.
Emily St. James is an American critic, journalist, podcaster, and author. She primarily writes about television. She has written for Vox, The A.V. Club, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Grantland, and Slant, among others.
All We Can Save is a 2020 collection of essays and poetry edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson and published by One World. The collection sets out to highlight a wide range of women's voices in the environmental movement, most of whom are from North America. The book represents a wide range of essays, and creative works by over 50 women involved in climate change activism, science, and policy.
Kendra Pierre-Louis is an American climate reporter and journalist. She most recently worked at Gimlet Media as a reporter and producer on the podcast How to Save a Planet, featuring Alex Blumberg and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.
Abigail Dillen is an environmental lawyer and executive at the environmental justice organization Earthjustice. Her work has been called "precedent setting" by multiple climate organizations. This includes, for example, defending the roadless rule. She was profiled as a 2020 changemaker by Marie Claire.
Genevieve Juliette Guenther is an American author and climate change activist. A former Renaissance scholar, she is the founding director of the media watchdog organization End Climate Silence. She is currently affiliate faculty at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.