The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting have partnered to connect journalists reporting on climate change with leading researchers and students studying climate change communication. As part of their Campus Consortium Partnerships, the Pulitzer Center collaborates with YPCCC to bring leading environmental journalists to the Yale campus to give public presentations and lead seminars for Yale faculty and students. The Pulitzer Center also supports a competitive fellowship program, giving Yale students an opportunity to work directly with Pulitzer journalists as part of a training program in Washington, D.C. As partners, YPCCC and the Pulitzer Center collaborate to produce, promote, and distribute climate-focused content to a wide national audience.
The partnership has hosted numerous events, including:
For six years, YPCCC has also awarded a summer fellowship and travel grant to Yale students. Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES) masters student Elham Shabahat received the inaugural fellowship in 2017; she explored the impact of climate change on the mountain gorilla and people living near its habitat in Rwanda. Elham’s photo essays on her work can be viewed here and here. In 2018, Rohan Naik (Yale College ’18) received the fellowship to research how air pollution in London impacts the city’s most vulnerable residents. More details on Rohan’s research can be found here. In 2019, Emma Johnson (F&ES 2020) investigated the environmental, social, and economic impacts of hydropower in Bhutan. Emma’s storymap is accessible here. Blanca Begert (F&ES 2020) was the 2020 fellow. In Restricted Access: Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo people are battling conservation authorities to reclaim management of their land, Blanca explores land sovereignty in the Amazon. Irene Vázquez (Yale College 2021) was the 2021 fellow. In Big Oil’s Big History, Irene told the stories of the Black and Indigenous peoples of coastal Louisiana together, highlighting how organizing across difference has led to new horizons for their activism addressing climate change. For Fishpond Aquaculture in a Warming World, 2022 fellow Grace Cajski (Yale College 2024) spent a month on Oahu and the Big Island researching how ancient Hawaiian fishponds can, will, and have interacted with climate change.