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Justine Calma is a freelance multimedia journalist reporting across the U.S. and internationally on health, climate change, migration and human rights. Her work has appeared on NBC News, PBS, WNYC, PRI's The World, Quartz, The GroundTruth Project, Salon and Huffington Post, among others. She is an alumna of Columbia Journalism School and the Toni Stabile investigative program. Justine was born in the Philippines and moved to Los Angeles as a child. She's now based in New York City. She loves Asian American community and art.
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Justine Calma is a senior science reporter at Vox Media’s The Verge, where she covers clean energy and the environment. She’s also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Since the adoption of the Paris agreement in 2015, Justine has reported on climate change on the ground in four continents. “Power Shift,” her story about one neighborhood’s fight for clean energy in New Orleans was published in the 2022 HarperCollins anthology, The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She previously covered environmental justice at Grist and taught a nonfiction climate writing class for the MFA program at The City College of New York. She is an alumna of Columbia Journalism School's Toni Stabile investigative program and the Ida B. Wells fellowship at The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund. Her writing can also be found on NBC News, PBS, PRI's The World, WNYC, FiveThirtyEight, Quartz, HuffPost, Mother Jones, and The GroundTruth Project, among others. Justine was born in Manila, immigrated to Los Angeles as a child, and is now based in New York City.
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