Meet The Team

Iris M. Crawford

- Founder and Creator

Iris M. Crawford is a movement journalist, editor, and strategic communicator living on Lenapehoking ancestral lands, now known as New York City.  Her storytelling focuses on the intersections of food, agriculture, solutions around the just transition, and environmental science, among other topics. What led her to journalism was grassroots organizing, where she worked with frontline communities across the Western US and helped push for community power and energy justice in California. Most recently, she was a 2024 Mellon Environmental and Epistemic Justice Fellow at Wake Forest University. Her work has appeared in NPQ, The Guardian, Civil Eats, San Francisco Chronicle,  and Prism, among other publications. She is a board member of the Uproot Project, a support network of environmental and science journalists of color. Iris holds a BA from Syracuse University and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Learn more about Iris’s work here.