{"id":11266,"date":"2021-08-13t17:39:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-13t17:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/announcing-the-2021-planet-forward-comcast-nbcuniversal-sustainable-storytelling-fellows\/"},"modified":"2021-08-13t17:39:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13t17:39:46","slug":"sustainable-storytelling-fellows-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/sustainable-storytelling-fellows-21\/","title":{"rendered":"announcing the 2021 planet forward-comcast nbcuniversal sustainable storytelling fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">record heat, extreme weather, withering drought, devastating wildfires, accelerating climate change. the news is exhausting. and heartbreaking. it shows us the urgency of the moment and the stakes involved. but it also calls for action, leadership, and breakthrough.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">that\u2019s what we focus on at planet forward \u2014 the ideas, inventions, and outrageously ambitious innovations needed to address our planetary challenges.&nbsp;we\u2019re based at a university and we work with a 2022年世界杯亚洲预选赛结果
 of schools \u2014&nbsp;students and faculty alike \u2014&nbsp;to research and tell stories that inform, inspire, and drive action.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">today, i have the pleasure of announcing an important journey of collaboration: the planet forward-comcast nbcuniversal sustainable storytelling fellowship. with support from our friends at comcast nbcuniversal, we have selected three talented student storytellers who will report from the frontlines of sustainability. along with my colleagues, i will mentor and guide them. their mini-documentaries will be screened to an audience of academics, professionals, and in the fields of science and communication at the 2022 planet forward summit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">our storytelling fellows bring an exciting commitment, curiosity, and passion for storytelling to this remarkable opportunity. their stories will reflect their diversity and their depth and will focus on communities where sustainability is an urgent challenge. we are so grateful for comcast for making this journey of discovery possible.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">i\u2019m delighted to share with you the planet forward-comcast nbcuniversal&nbsp;sustainable storytelling fellows for the 2021-22 academic year:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u2022 mckenzie allen-charmley<\/strong>, who is a rising senior majoring in broadcast journalism at arizona state university\u2019s walter cronkite school of journalism and mass communication and minoring in business. she is an alaska native and black journalist from anchorage, alaska pursuing a career in broadcast journalism to inspire young native girls and to help create the foundation of a journalistic evolution that values representation, authenticity and accuracy above all else. her love of the environment began as a child, growing up living a subsistence lifestyle with her family members from her tribal village of eklutna.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/users\/jennifer-cuyuch\">jennifer cuyuch<\/a><\/strong>, who is a rising senior majoring in political communication at george washington university\u2019s school of media and public affairs and minoring in photography and spanish. her passion for environmental studies started when she joined take back the tap, an organization aiming to raise awareness about water privatization, during her freshman year. she is also passionate about multimedia and latin american migration studies, as her parents migrated from peru and guatemala, and she aims to bring attention to the interconnections between climate change, migration and displacement through her work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u2022 jelina liu<\/strong>, who is also a political communication student at george washington university\u2019s school of media and public affairs. liu is a chinese-american filmmaker from the bay area. she has experience in both fictional and nonfiction storytelling, but now specializes in documentary filmmaking. she is also passionate about socioeconomic and environmental justice and has experience in grassroots organizing. this passion informs her work, as she aims to tell stories that will inspire people to take action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">i look forward to working with the fellows as their stories unfold, and to sharing these stories with you, our community, in april.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the three fellows will create&nbsp;mini-documentaries&nbsp;on the frontlines of sustainability to be screened to an audience of academics, professionals, and students in the fields of science and communication at the 2022 planet forward summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4930],"tags":[4579,3438,4580,4581,322,81],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-11266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-communication","tag-comcast","tag-documentary","tag-fellows","tag-nbcuniversal","tag-storytelling","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v23.4 - 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