Kendra Pierre-Louis

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Kendra Pierre-Louis
Occupation journalist
Language English
Spanish
Haitian Creole
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SIT Graduate Institute
Cornell University
Genre climate change

Kendra Pierre-Louis is an American climate reporter and journalist. She most recently worked [1] at Gimlet Media as a reporter and producer on the podcast How to Save a Planet, featuring Alex Blumberg and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. [2] [3] [4]

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Career

Pierre-Louis previously worked at Gimlet Media, The New York Times and Popular Science . [5] [6] Her work has also appeared in Aeon , FiveThirtyEight , Sierra, InsideClimate News , Newsweek and The Washington Post . [3] She also worked as a researcher for Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm. [7]

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. [8] [9] [10] It was reviewed positively by Climate and Capitalism reviewer Ian Angus. [9] Kirkus Reviews called the book "a slim but revealing investigation." [11]

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 . [12] [13] [14]

Personal life

Pierre-Louis is a first-generation American born to Haitian parents and was raised speaking Spanish and Haitian Creole. [15]

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. [3] During her graduate studies, she received a Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowship for science writing. [16]

She has repeatedly criticized mayonnaise, [4] [15] going so far as to publish an essay in Popular Science in 2017, calling the condiment "disgusting". [17]

Awards and recognition

Pierre-Louis received a Sagebrush Country Institute Fellowship in 2015, [18] and a Bringing Home the World Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists in 2016. [8] In 2017, Pierre-Louis was selected by the National Press Foundation for national environmental journalist training. [19] In 2020, Pierre-Louis was named Science Writer in Residence by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [20]

In 2019 Bustle named her one of its "25 Climate Scientists and Experts to Follow on Twitter" for climate information. [21] She also delivered the keynote speech at the 2019 Oppenheimer Media Ethics Symposium at the University of Idaho. [22]

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