Writing Team
In one of this issue's stories, a student sits through smoke-mode procedures she's done since third grade. She's bored. The tension in her day is a crush. The adults in this issue are still working on something more basic: Chicago couldn't classify heat as a mass-casualty event until bodies overwhelmed the morgue in 1995. We're still learning to name and count what these kids already navigate without thinking. What they don't carry is any memory of what came before. This whole issue circles around what that costs.
Maya Jiménez
Maya Jiménez, 34, is a Polk Award-winning narrative journalist covering climate adaptation, environmental justice, and community resilience. Born in Guatemala City and raised in Oakland, she specializes in collaborative journalism that centers frontline voices, spending months embedded with communities facing climate impacts.
Seth D. Carrington
Former merchant seaman and labor journalist who spent decades watching working communities navigate crises while elites offered empty promises. Writes with dark humor about the gap between climate rhetoric and lived reality.
