Tuesday, September 26: The Battle To Set U.S. Heat Safety Standards: An Evening with ‘TIME’ Magazine’s Aryn Baker
Aryn Baker is the senior international climate and environment correspondent at TIME. She is a 2023 Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Fellow.
Baker covers the human impacts of climate change, as well as food security, oceans, climate migration, and extreme heat.
She lives in Rome, and has reported from more than 50 countries, as TIME‘s Africa bureau chief based in Cape Town, the Middle East bureau chief based in Beirut, Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief based in Kabul, and as the Asia correspondent based in Hong Kong. She has won multiple awards for her writing, reporting, and documentary work.
This event is presented as part of the Campus Consortium partnership between the Pulitzer Center and the Weidenbaum Center.
The talk is part of a two-day visit by Baker to Washington University. Baker will also visit several classes to discuss her reporting and connect with students and faculty.
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Wednesday, September 27: Equitable Energy Access – Intro to the Justice 40 Initiative
The event’s primary focus is on alleviating energy burdens in low to moderate-income households and affordable multi-family housing units. By highlighting funding opportunities linked to Justice 40, the event seeks to underscore its objective of equitable distribution of resources. The initiative’s ultimate goal is to direct support toward communities grappling with environmental injustices, ensuring that community-driven solutions receive the necessary funding and attention to address urgent climate challenges in the St. Louis metro area.
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November 12, Deadline: Local Letters for Global Change: A Pulitzer Center Writing Contest
Announcing the 2023 Pulitzer Center letter-writing contest!
K-12 students: Make your voice heard this fall by writing a letter to a local elected representative that explains the global issue you want them to prioritize, shows how it connects to your local community, and proposes a solution. Through this contest, students can practice global citizenship, civic action, and persuasive writing, all while exploring the underreported issues that matter to them through Pulitzer Center news stories.
The Pulitzer Center wants to read and share your letters: tell us, and the world, what’s most important to you. Read on for contest details, and then enter the contest here.
