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Iris M. Crawford
I am a movement journalist and strategic communications professional in New York City. My work focuses on the intersections of agriculture, food, community-led solutions, environmental science, and climate change. My background is in grassroots organizing, where I’ve organized alongside allied organizations and communities to advance energy justice, community power, and climate resiliency in California and across the West Coast. Most recently, I was the senior communications advisor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Region 2 and the climate justice senior editor at the Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ). My work has appeared in The Guardian, NPQ, The Guardian, Civil Eats, and Prism, among other publications. Currently, I am a board member of the Uproot Project—a support network for diverse environmental and science journalists. I have a BA from Syracuse University and a MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
If not on the search for the best matcha in town or browsing the shelves of a bookstore or thrift store, I am yapping about Guyana, my first home.