Writing Team
We built this issue around what happens after you do the work. A woman in Phoenix has the legal right to install air conditioning in her mobile home. The wiring won't carry it past one bedroom. Her summer is one room. In California, homeowners met every fire-safety standard and found no insurer could see the proof. On the Colorado, every dam still runs on a flow number that was wrong before the concrete dried. People are adapting. The systems meant to connect that effort to protection keep running on old numbers, old labels, old maps. This issue is about what that looks like from inside the house.
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.
