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About Me

I’m a climate reporter focused on how environmental change is reshaping housing, land use, and the meaning of home and place. I write and produce stories on how climate change drives displacement, grief, and migration, disrupts insurance and real estate markets, and shapes policies that govern recovery and resilience.

I’m particularly interested in the way extreme weather is forcing a reckoning between denial and reluctant acceptance of climate change — and how it’s redefining who will bear the burden of intensifying storms, who will get to stay home, and how politics, markets, and beliefs shape those decisions.

Most recently, I produced and reported for NBC News’ national Climate Unit, covering extreme weather, federal science and climate policy, climate migration, and emerging environmental movements. My work spans digital explainers, enterprise features, and short documentaries on how humans are experiencing global climate change. I also write freelance stories on science, health, and environment for national outlets like Popular Science and Live Science.

I began my career covering technology, energy, and engineering news at a trade publication for chemical engineers. Long before I covered hurricanes and insurance markets, I studied the feeding patterns of sea sponges native to South Florida. My background in biology, field research, and narrative journalism defines how I connect systems, infrastructure, and lived experience through video and writing.

Read and watch some of my favorite pieces below...

Battered by hurricanes and tired of rebuilding, 90% of population has left this coastal town

CAMERON PARISH, La. — Seven days a week, Tressie LaBove Smith makes the two-hour round trip from Lake Charles to what’s left of her Cajun restaurant in Cameron, Louisiana, an unincorporated town perched along the stormy Gulf Coast. Business once boomed at Anchors Up Grill, which opened in 2014 as Cameron's only sit-down restaurant. In 2020, Hurricane Laura destroyed the restaurant along with most of the town.

Evangelical environmentalists push for climate votes as election nears: 'Care for God's creation'

When groups of evangelical students canvass for climate votes at their Christian colleges later this month, they’ll have a tagline: “Love God, Love Your Neighbor, Vote for Climate!” It’s the first such in-person campaigning on campuses that the nonpartisan group Young Evangelicals for Climate Action has organized since it launched in 2012.The volunteers — members of chapters at six Christian colleges — aim to draw connections between communities affected by the climate crisis and the Christian d...

How weather driven by climate change helped fuel the Southern California fires

The wildfires that ravaged the Los Angeles area last month were driven by monthslong, climate change-fueled weather patterns, according to scientists studying the meteorological factors behind them.