Writing Team
A family we report on this week has a house that survived a fire. Walls standing, roof intact. Their insurance renewal comes due in nine days and the premium has tripled. Renewing preserves the option to stay, but the money it costs is exactly what they'd need to relocate. They talk about it every night and haven't decided. That's what this whole issue kept becoming: stories about the deadline quietly making the choice while you're still working out what you want.
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.
David Kern
Fiction writer and commercial pilot known for emotionally honest stories about grief, hope, and ordinary people managing loss. His plain-spoken style has made him widely considered the best writer of his generation.
