Writing & Photography
The following pieces were written for and live on the Columbia Climate School’s State of the Planet blog. Many also include my photography work.
Fixing Our Broken Relationship with ‘Stuff’: A Q&A With Sandra Goldmark
The author of the book “Fixation” delves into our complex relationship with consumption, and gives practical advice on how to make it healthier.
What it’s Like at Columbia Climate School in the Green Mountains
From June 27 to July 9, 2021, Columbia welcomed their first-ever cohort of students into the Columbia Climate School in the Green Mountains program. The program welcomed 80 high-school students from around the United States to the Castleton University campus in Castleton, Vermont. The students participated in a two-week program to mobilize action, drive impact, and affect change in response to our warming planet. Photos also by me.
Out on the Farm With See-U NYC
The Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U) program is an intensive course at Columbia that gives students a chance to get outside the city and all over the world to study ecosystems and agriculture, earn science credits, and get fieldwork experience under their belts. Follow along to see what the students experience. Photography also by me.
You Asked Blog Series
A series of blog articles dedicated to engaging directly with the Columbia Climate School community. Readers submit questions, and Columbia Climate School staff contact scientists on their behalf to answer them directly.
Photo by Troy Simpson
In East Harlem, Community Gardens Provide More Than Food
Community gardens have long been a part of New York City’s alternative spaces. But many of us may take the gardens for granted, unaware of their rich history and of the vast benefits they bring to our communities and the city as a whole. Walking by a community garden in your neighborhood and peeking through the gate, you may recognize it as a green space but not understand it as an anchoring presence in your community.
Tools in the Rock Mechanics lab
Tools of the Trade
Tools of the Trade is a series that brings you inside the labs of the Columbia Climate School’s scientists. Learn about the equipment scientists are using, and discover how those tools are used in their research. I developed the series and all reporting, photography, and writing was done by me with the help of Earth Institute interns.
Photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia University Alumni
Beto O’Rourke Discusses Climate Change on Columbia Campus
Former congressman Beto O’Rourke visited the Columbia University campus on Monday, February 4th, 2019, for a Town Hall with Columbia College students. O’Rourke, a CC alumnus (class of ’95), addressed students’ questions ranging from a wall at the Mexican border and relations with Israel, to climate change.