Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Samantha Harrington is the Director of Audience Experience at Yale Climate Connections. Sam is a journalist and graphic designer, with a background in digital media, entrepreneurship and online communities. Coming from Wisconsin, she is especially interested in sharing how climate change is affecting people, ecosystems and culture across the U.S. Midwest. Previously, she was the global community manager at ISeeChange. In 2015, after graduating from the University of North Carolina, where she studied Journalism and Arab Cultures, she founded Driven Media, a roving newsroom, and she was a regular contributor to Women@Forbes, where she wrote about women in business. She has also worked on a number of international projects. In 2018 she illustrated and designed an educational workbook for Syrian children living in Jordan and Lebanon for the organization Project Amal ou Salam. In 2014 she traveled to Amman, Jordan, to study why Jordanian women study STEM subjects at twice the rate of American women, and she has reported on maternal health issues in Malawi and on counter terrorism efforts in Morocco.