Zoë Schlanger is a writer and environmental journalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Wired, The Nation, the New York Times, Quartz, the Fader, the Village Voice, and elsewhere. She covers how climate change and pollution impact human and non-human life. She is compelled towards stories that bear witness to the ways humans are not separate from our environments, despite what we might choose to believe—and which communities ultimately suffer most from the consequences of that disjointed thinking. Right now, she is developing a book-length work that explores the world of plant intelligence research and its implications for all of us. Zoë received the 2017 National Association of Science Writers' reporting award for a Newsweek cover story on environmental racism in the most polluted zip code in Detroit. In 2019, she was a finalist for the Livingston Award, the Morley Safer Award for Outstanding Reporting, the National Academies of Sciences Award, and the American Geophysical Union journalism award for “Shallow Waters,” a series about how climate change, water politics, and rising heat is transforming life at the Texas-Mexico border. Zoë has been a guest in journalism classrooms at NYU and CUNY's journalism programs. She graduated with a BA from NYU, where she focused on ecology, political theory, and writing.
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