Yessenia Funes
Environmental Journalist; Editor at Large, Atmos Magazine
Yessenia Funes is a journalist who’s been covering issues surrounding the climate crisis and environmental racism for 10 years. She’s editor at large for Atmos Magazine and as a freelance journalist has been published in The Guardian, Vogue, National Geographic, Patagonia, Grist and more. Funes publishes a weekly creative climate newsletter called Possibilities, is the environmental justice columnist for the Society of Environmental Journalists, and is a consultant and public speaker. Previously, she was climate director and climate editor for Atmos, a senior staff writer at Earther, a climate justice reporter for Colorlines, and assistant editor at YES! Magazine, among others. She has also been an adjunct professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Previously
Every day brings dozens of new climate stories in the media, but substance often falls prey to click-chasing and brevity, and predominantly-white newsrooms often give less cov...