Where are Arctic futures written? Join Brett V. Simpson, an award-winning climate, science, and human rights journalist, on an imaginative traversal of the Arctic Ocean sea ice edge — an edge, she argues, that's just as dynamic and ever-changing as the lines separating science, storytelling,
Simpson is a freelance climate and human rights journalist and 2024–2026 Institute of Current World Affairs fellow based in Tromsø, Norway. Her print and audio reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, The Nation, Reveal, NPR, and The World.
Previously, Brett researched the European energy transition in Berlin as a European Journalism Fellow (2023–2024) and a Fulbright Fellow (2022–2023). Her reporting on Arctic climate projects, California water rights, and Alaskan fisheries has been supported by organizations including the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the International Women's Media Foundation, and the Food and Environment Reporting Network. She holds a master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in English from Princeton University.
Join us in the Community Foundation Theater, located in the Gund Gallery, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 4:30 p.m.
Sponsored with Kenyon Keys, the Department of English and Creative Writing, Center for the Study of American Democracy, Career Development Office, Kenyon Campus Community Development Fund and the Kenyon Review.
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