Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Our goal is to use the power of storytelling to illuminate the way toward a better world, inspire millions of people to walk that path with us, and show that the time for action is now.
Nikhil Swaminathan | CEO
Natasha Berman | Chief Operating Officer
Lydia Middleton | Special Assistant to the CEO
Editorial
Tristan Ahtone | Editor at Large
Clayton Aldern | Senior Data Reporter
L.V. Anderson | News Editor
Gabriela Aoun | Climate Solutions Writer
Amelia Bates | Senior Designer
Katherine Bagley | Executive Editor
Blanca Begert, News Fellow
Jessie Blaeser, Data Fellow
Jake Bittle, Staff Writer
Teresa Chin | Deputy Editor
Matt Craft | Senior Editor
Emily Jones | Reporter, Georgia
Joseph Lee | Senior Indigenous Affairs Fellow
Katherine Lanpher | Senior Editor
Brett Marsh, Environmental Justice Fellow
John McCracken, Midwest Fellow
Jesse Nichols | Video Producer
Daniel Penner | Senior Video Producer
Emily Pontecorvo | Reporter
Maria Parazo Rose | Spatial Data Analyst
Naveena Sadasivam | Senior Staff Writer
Zoya Teirstein | Staff Writer
John Thomason | Features Editor
Joseph Winters | Newsletter Reporter
Kate Yoder | Staff Writer
Lylla Younes, Senior Staff Writer
Fix
Rachel Bouton | Senior Manager, Networks and Events
Jaime Buerger | Managing Editor
Lisa Jurras-Buchanan | Co-Director
Joshua Kimelman | Project Coordinator
Avery Schuyler Nunn, Climate Solutions Fellow
Darel Scott | Entrepreneur in Residence
Chuck Squatriglia | Senior Editor
Jessica Stahl | Co-Director
Tory Stephens | Climate Fiction Creative Manager and Network Weaver
Claire Thompson | Associate Editor
Mia Torres | Editorial Designer
Innovation & Growth
Angelica Arinze | Audience Producer
Jason Castro | Digital Producer, Audience
Mignon Khargie | Art Director
Megan Merrigan | Interim Director of Innovation and Growth
Development
Jess Alvarado-Lepine | Director, Membership
Alexandra Comer | Development Manager
Jeff Giza-Martin | Salesforce & ESP Administrator
Pat Schmitt | Director, Development
Michelle Thompson | Foundation Relations Officer
Brian Troyer | Senior Manager, Business Development
Administration
Ayesha Pacholke | Senior Human Resources Advisor
Bekah Cardwell | Director of Finance
Marijo “MJ” Mendoza | HR Manager
The Uproot Project
Lucia Priselac | Director, The Uproot Project
Nora O’Brian | Operations Associate
Sofia Prado Huggins | Audience Engagement Associate for Uproot
Board of Directors
John Alderman | CEO, CarCare To Go
Gino Borland | CarbonQuest
Susan Chira | Editor-in-Chief, the Marshall Project
Michelle DePass | President, DePass Paulson Advisors
Chip Giller | Founder, Grist
C’Ardiss Gardner Gleser | Philanthropy Consultant, Black Ivy Collective
Kristen Grimm | President of Spitfire
Elise Hu | Co-founder, Reasonable Volume
Susan L. Kaufman | Susan L. Kaufman Consulting
Donna Moodie | EVP, Community Roots Housing and Owner, Marjorie’s Restaurant
Rachel Morello-Frosch | Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management &
School of Public Health
Julian Brave NoiseCat | Writer
Kavita Ramdas | Consultant and Philanthropic Advisor
Nikhil Swaminathan | CEO, Grist
John Vechey | Pluto VR and PopCap Games
Brady Piñero Walkinshaw | CEO, Earth Alliance
Emeritus
Don Chen | President, Surdna Foundation
Bill McKibben | Author and Activist
Wendy Schmidt | President, Schmidt Family Foundation
Eugene Mirman | Writer and Comedian
Dr. Benjamin Strauss | CEO & Chief Scientist, Climate Central
Founder
Chip Giller | Founder, Grist
