Contributors

Charu Sinha is the audience editor at Heatmap. She was previously a news writer at Vulture, where she covered arts and culture. She has also written for Netflix, iHeartMedia, and NPR.

Emily is a founding staff writer at Heatmap. Previously she was a staff writer at the nonprofit climate journalism outlet Grist, where she covered all aspects of decarbonization, from clean energy to electrified buildings to carbon dioxide removal.

Jacob is Heatmap's founding multimedia editor. Before joining Heatmap, he was The Week's digital art director and an associate editor at MAD magazine.

Jael is a senior reporter at Heatmap. Previously, she was an energy and climate policy reporter for Axios and covered energy transition resources for E&E News. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Jessica Hullinger is a freelance writer and editor who likes to think deeply about climate science and sustainability. She previously served as Global Deputy Editor for The Week, and her writing has been featured in publications including Fast Company, Popular Science, and Fortune. Jessica is originally from Indiana but lives in London.

Jeva is a founding staff writer at Heatmap. Her writing has also appeared in The Week, where she formerly served as executive editor and culture critic, as well as in The New York Daily News, Vice, and Gothamist, among others. Jeva lives in New York City.

Jillian is Heatmap's deputy editor. Before that, she was opinion editor at The Information and deputy editor at Bloomberg Green.

Katie is a staff writer for Heatmap covering climate tech. Based out of Seattle, she formerly worked as a reporter and producer for CNBC.com.

Matthew is a correspondent at Heatmap. Previously he was an economics reporter at Grid, where he covered macroeconomics and energy, and a business reporter at BuzzFeed News, where he covered finance. He has written for The New York Times, the Guardian, Barron's, and New York Magazine.

Robinson is the founding executive editor of Heatmap. He was previously a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covered climate change, energy, and technology.

Abigail Bassett is a freelance journalist and content manager, a former CNN Senior Producer, a writer, an editorial manager, a producer, and a conference and television host. Her work has appeared in publications like Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, TechCrunch, The Verge, Forbes, Fortune, Automobile Magazine, Autoweek, Ars Technica, CNET, and on CNN. She has also hosted large scale conference events for Reuters , the United States Small Business Administration, the Electrify Expo, and JBL. She is the owner of CNTRL Media, LLC.

Advait Arun is a climate and infrastructure finance analyst working at the Center for Public Enterprise on innovative financial program designs supporting the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act. He was previously a research analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of International Affairs. His writing reflects his own views.

Ajit Niranjan is an award-winning climate and data journalist in Berlin, mainly working for German public broadcaster DW News. You can watch his videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateSimple/videos

Alden Wicker is an award-winning investigative journalist, founder of EcoCult.com, and author of To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick — and How We Can Fight Back (Putnam). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and cat.

Alex Trembath is deputy director of the Breakthrough Institute, a policy think tank supporting technological solutions to environmental problems. He has served as an editor and advisor for the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Roots of Progress, Case Studies in the Environment, and the Inclusive Abundance Initiative. Follow Alex @atrembath.

Alexander C. Kaufman is an award-winning journalist who has covered energy and climate change for more than a decade. His reporting has spanned four continents, taking readers from Indigenous villages in the Brazilian Amazon to Mongolian nomads' homes on the frigid steppe, Greenland's ice sheet to Finland's world-first nuclear waste repository. He writes the Substack newsletter FIELD NOTES from Alexander C. Kaufman and can be reached via his website, www.alexanderckaufman.com. A fourth-generation New Yorker, he lives in Southern Brooklyn with his wife.

Andrew Moseman has covered science, technology, and transportation for publications such as The Atlantic, Inverse, Insider, Outside, and MIT Technology Review. He was previously digital director of Popular Mechanics and now serves as online communications editor at Caltech. He is based in Los Angeles.

Anna Kramer is a technology and climate journalist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, among others.

Annie Xia is an editorial intern at Heatmap. She is also a student at Northwestern University, where she studies journalism and data science.

Bonnie Kristian is the author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and has been published at outlets including The New York Times, The Week, Reason, and The Daily Beast.

Brian Deese is the Institute Innovation Fellow at MIT and was previously Director of the White House National Economic Council.

Brian Potter is senior fellow at the Institute for Progress. He also writes the newsletter Construction Physics.

Charlie was an intern at Heatmap and senior at Brown University, where he studies applied math and history. He is also the managing editor of digital content at The Brown Daily Herald.

Christopher Robbins is an editor and co-founder at Hell Gate. He spent a decade working for Gothamist, a year at the Village Voice, and has written for New York Magazine and Streetsblog.

Colleen Hagerty covers disasters for outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Popular Science, among others. She also writes My World’s on Fire, a weekly newsletter on the subject.

Damon Lavrinc is a freelance writer and industrial design student focused on the future of transportation. A former driving instructor and communications professional, Damon is the co-founder of the Autonocast and led transportation technology coverage at WIRED, Jalopnik, and other outlets.

Daniel Ackerman is a climate journalist covering the material side of the energy transition. His work appears on National Public Radio, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and others.

Daniel Golson is a freelance automotive journalist based in Los Angeles. While obsessed with every facet of the industry, his specialities are discussing design, new technology and the intersection of cars and culture. His personal garage is filled by a bright teal 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300SL named after Meryl Streep's character in 'Death Becomes Her.'

Daniel Knowles is Midwest correspondent for The Economist and the author of Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It. He lives in Chicago and writes about politics, transport and urban governance. Previously he worked on The Economist's foreign desk in London and in Nairobi, Mumbai and Washington DC.

Daniel Propp is an environmental policy expert and freelance writer with bylines in Inside Climate News, Latitude Media, the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, and The Hill. He previously worked on energy and climate for the Center on Global Energy Policy and Resources for the Future.

Danny Cullenward is a climate economist and lawyer. He is a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the vice chair of California’s carbon market advisory committee.

David Lipsky is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Absolutely American and Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, which became the basis for the movie The End of the Tour. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper’s Magazine, and New York, and he is a recipient of the National Magazine Award and the GLAAD Media Award. His work has been collected in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Magazine Writing. He teaches writing and literature at New York University and lives in New York City.

Emily Grubert is Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy, and, concurrently, of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Carbon Management (2021-2022) and Senior Advisor for Energy Asset Transformation (2022-2023) at the US Department of Energy. Grubert is a life cycle assessment expert whose research focuses on justice-oriented deep decarbonization and decision support tools related to large infrastructure systems. She holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from Stanford University.

Emma is a freelance journalist who covers energy, climate change, and the environment. She is based in California.

Gregory Barber is a freelance journalist who was formerly a climate reporter at Wired.

Gregory Wischer is non-resident fellow at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines and at the Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Hazel is an F1 journalist who writes about the technicalities of cars and moving stuff around. She's written for ESPN, The Drive, RaceFans, Motor Sport and more.

Ilmi Granoff is a senior fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and a principal at the advisory firm Climate Technology Group.

Bella Steinhauer holds a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School at the University of Texas Austin. Her writing and research covers climate and economic justice issues, with a focus on food systems policy.

Issie Lapowsky is a reporter focused on tech, business, and national affairs. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, WIRED, Fast Company, and more.

Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh is currently an energy consultant, formerly leading carbon management policy and advocacy for Breakthrough Energy.

James Fallows is the author of the newsletter Breaking the News. He is also a contributing writer for The Atlantic, where he previously served as a national correspondent and staff writer. The author of 12 books, he has won the National Magazine Award, American Book Award, and an Emmy. He was also a chief speechwriter for President Carter.

Jason Torchinsky is the co-founder of The Autopian, the fastest-growing automotive enthusiast website on the internet. Prior to that, Torchinsky was Senior Editor of the website Jalopnik, where he wrote over 6,000 articles and helped define that site's tone and reputation. Torchinsky has been on Jay Leno’s Garage and was a producer on the show as well. He has appeared in many online videos and television shows, including his own, Jason Drives, an internet show featuring millions and millions of views run by Jalopnik, which features Torchinsky driving obscure cars, and newer versions run by The Autopian. Torchinsky is also a stand-up comic who has opened for George Carlin; an artist whose installations have exhibited around the world; and the author of the book Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving, and coauthor of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. A long-time resident of Los Angeles, CA, Torchinsky returned to his home state, North Carolina. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Jennifer Granholm is a Senior Counselor at DGA Group. She is an American lawyer, educator, author, and politician who served most recently as the 16th United States secretary of energy and previously as the two-term governor of Michigan.

Jeremy Wallace is A. Doak Barnett Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He writes on authoritarianism focusing on China, cities, statistics, and climate change. His most recent book is Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China.

Jesse Chase-Lubitz is a climate change writer and the author of the Edifice newsletter. Her writing has appeared in Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, Politico, The American Prospect, and others. She recently completed an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation at the London School of Economics, where she conducted original research into Dutch sea-level rise adaptation architecture within the Netherlands and Indonesia.

Jesse D. Jenkins is an assistant professor and expert in energy systems engineering and policy at Princeton University where he leads the REPEAT Project, which provides regular, timely environmental and economic evaluation of federal energy and climate policies as they’re proposed and enacted.

Joel Mathis is a freelance writer who lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife and son. He spent nine years as a syndicated columnist, co-writing the RedBlueAmerica column as the liberal half of a point-counterpoint duo. His honors include awards for best online commentary from the Online News Association and (twice) from the City and Regional Magazine Association.

John King is an urban design critic at the San Francisco Chronicle and a two-time Pulitzer finalist. The author of two guidebooks to San Francisco architecture and an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, he lives in Berkeley, California.

Josh Smith is the energy policy lead for the Abundance Institute, a nonprofit based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He writes Powering Spaceship Earth on Substack. Follow Josh @smithtjosh.

Joshua Lappen is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame, where he studies the expansion and contraction of networked energy systems. He is also a research fellow with the Future of Heat Institute. He was born, raised, and lives in Los Angeles.

Julia was an intern at Heatmap and a senior at Brown University, where she studies political science and media. She is also the managing editor of the newsroom at The Brown Daily Herald.

Justin Guay is a program director at Quadrature Climate Foundation. Previously he was the director for global climate strategy at the Sunrise Project. He has 15 years of experience in nonprofit advocacy and strategy development working for ClimateWorks Foundation, Packard Foundation, and the Sierra Club.

Kate Mackenzie is an independent researcher, journalist and advisor to organizations pursuing the Paris Agreement goals. She is a contributor to Bloomberg Green, editor of The Polycrisis series at Jain Family Institute's Phenomenal World journal, and a non-resident fellow at the Centre for Policy Development, a non-partisan Australian policy think tank.

Kelly Kimball is a bilingual journalist and photographer based in New York City by way of Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Bay Area, and Santiago, Chile. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, the San Francisco Chronicle, and DCist.

Kevin Williams is an automotive journalist focused on the corner where electrification meets automotive culture. Published in spaces like The Verge, Road & Track, The Drive, and more, he focuses on how electric vehicles impact everyday drivers.

Lisa Hansmann is a Principal at Engine Ventures. She previously served as Special Assistant to the President for economic policy in the Biden Administration.

Lisa Martine Jenkins is a climate journalist based in Brooklyn. She previously wrote for Protocol, and her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Associated Press, and Civil Eats, among others.

Melanie Brusseler is a senior researcher at Common Wealth. Before that, she researched global macrofinance, economic management, and industrial planning policy for decarbonization at E3G, where she wrote a bi-weekly newsletter on green macrofinance and transition planning.

Michael Grunwald, a Miami resident, is the author of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. His next book will be about food, land, and climate change.

Mike is the VP of Sales at Heatmap. He previously was the founding director of growth at Canary Media, where he authored a column on the intersection of climate and culture.

Morgan Bazilian is Professor and Director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. He was previously Lead Energy Specialist at the World Bank.

Nathan M. Jensen is a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center and a co-author of “Incentives to Pander: How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain.”

Neel is a former founding staff writer at Heatmap. Prior to Heatmap, he was a science and climate reporter at Vox, an editorial fellow at Audubon magazine, and an assistant producer at Radiolab, where he helped produce The Other Latif, a series about one detainee's journey to Guantanamo Bay. He is a graduate of the Literary Reportage program at NYU, which helped him turn incoherent scribbles into readable stories, and he grew up (mostly) in Bangalore. He tweets sporadically at @neel_dhan.

Nicole Pollack is a freelance environmental journalist who writes about energy, agriculture, and climate change. She is based in Northeast Ohio.

Noah Millman is a commentator, critic, and filmmaker, and the author of the newsletter, Gideon’s Substack. He is the film and theater critic for Modern Age, and from 2015 to 2022 was a columnist for The Week, and from 2012 to 2017 he was a senior editor at The American Conservative. His writing has appeared in the Op Ed section of The New York Times as well as The New York Times Book Review, Politico, Foreign Policy, USA Today, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, First Things and the Jewish Review of Books among other publications. He is currently attached to direct his first feature film, Resentment, scheduled to shoot in June of 2023.

Noah Kaufman is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. He is a co-leader of the Resilient Energy Economies initiative, a network of scholars working with fossil fuel-dependent communities to develop strategies for their local economies. He served as a Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2021 to 2022.

Patrick is a writer and editor in New York. The former Editor-in-Chief of Jalopnik and Editorial Director of The Drive, he covers the future of transportation.

Paul Waldman is an MSNBC columnist, author of The Cross Section, a newsletter about politics, and host of the podcast of the same name. His latest book is White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.

Ryan Cooper is the managing editor at The American Prospect, and author of the book "How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics."

Ryan Jones is a climate journalist and fellow at Third Sphere. He has bylines in publications including Greenbiz, ImpactAlpha, and Resilience.org and has spent the past five years working across different climate change related issues with SecondMuse and Forum For the Future.

Sandeep Vaheesan is the legal director at the Open Markets Institute. From 2015 to 2018, he served as a regulations counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he helped develop rules on payday and title lending and debt collection practices. He is the author of Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States, which will be published in December by the University of Chicago Press.

Sanket Jain is an independent multiple award-winning journalist and a documentary photographer based in India’s Maharashtra state. His work has been featured in more than 30 national and international publications, including MIT Tech Review, The Daily Beast, USA Today, Indian Express, The Christian Science Monitor, The Verge, The British Medical Journal, and Johns Hopkins University’s Global Health Now.

Scott Lemieux is Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington. He has written about the Supreme Court and American politics for venues including the Guardian, Washington Post, NBC News, and The American Prospect.

Susan Crawford is the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law, emeritus at Harvard Law School. She previously was Obama’s special assistant to the president for science, technology, and innovation policy and co-led the FCC transition team between his and the Bush administrations.

Taylor Kate Brown is an independent reporter and editor with a decade-plus of experience that spans international, local and hyperlocal news. Most recently, she was the San Francisco Chronicle’s first newsletter editor, managing more than a dozen titles. Before that, she worked for BBC News for seven years, reporting feature stories across the U.S., and editing and producing multimedia pieces.

Tim Sahay is a climate policy expert with an energetic social movement-informed approach to government relations. He has worked over the past decade across physics, clean tech, and consulting. He is the co-editor of The Polycrisis, a publication at Phenomenal World that focuses on the political economy of Climate with an emphasis on the global south and geopolitics. His popular writings have appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, Jacobin, Le Grande Continent, and elsewhere.

Tom Steyer is the co-executive chair of Galvanize Climate Solutions, an asset management firm that invests in the business of decarbonization. A 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, Tom is the author of the 2024 title "Better, Faster, Cheaper: How We'll Win the Climate War."

Will was an intern at Heatmap from Washington, D.C. He was also the editor-in-chief of the Brown Daily Herald. Previously, he interned at the Wisconsin State Journal and National Journal.

William Falk is the former editor in chief of The Week magazine. He was previously a reporter, columnist, and editor at the Gannett Westchester Newspapers and at Newsday, where he was part of two reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes.

Zander Abranowicz is a writer and strategist. He has contributed to Travel + Leisure, ELLE Decor, Elite Traveler, and Are.na Annual, and collaborated with photographer William Abranowicz on three books, the latest being "Country Life: Homes of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson Valley." Zander is also the cofounder and strategy director at Abbreviated Projects, a strategic design studio. His monthly newsletter, "Buzzcut," covers travel, style, history, and nature. You can sign up here: https://buzzcut.substack.com/