Genevieve Juliette Guenther | |
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Education | Columbia University University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Organization(s) | End Climate Silence |
Website | https://www.genevieveguenther.com/ |
Genevieve Juliette Guenther is an American climate change activist, consultant, author, and speaker. She is the founding director of the media watchdog organization End Climate Silence, [8] and most recently affiliate faculty at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School. [9]
Guenther received her bachelor's degree from Columbia University [10] and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, in Renaissance literature. [2]
Guenther's mother was actress Greta Thyssen.
Guenther started her career as a tenure-track English professor at the University of Rochester. [2] Her book on English Literature, Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance, analyzes works by Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. [2]
Guenther writes scholarly and popular articles about climate change and politics.
She is the founding director of the volunteer organization End Climate Silence, which advocates for increased coverage of climate change in news media, [2] [1] [4] [3] [5] [6] [7] [11] The group's advisory board is Brad Johnson, Michael Mann, Peter Kalmus, and Margaret Klein Salamon. [12]
Guenther has been noted for her media activism [2] and for her book, The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It.[ citation needed ]
Guenther was an Expert Reviewer of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Working Group III. [10]
In 2018 she appeared on the CNN show Reliable Sources . [13] In 2019 she was interviewed by Brian Lehrer on "The Brian Lehrer Show," on WNYC public radio. [14] In October 2020 her work was profiled in The New Yorker . [2] In 2021 Guenther was interviewed on a climate-focused episode of The New York Times podcast, "The Argument." [15]