Writing Team
In Kipnuk, Alaska, a community voted to relocate after a typhoon. That sounds like a resolution. It isn't. Relocation takes a decade or more. Meanwhile 190 people remain where 1,000 lived, schools are closed, families return seasonally to gather berries on land they've agreed to leave. We kept finding that pattern across this issue. A roof survives a hurricane, then its certification lapses. A county installs backup batteries and discovers someone has to learn to run them. The decision looks like the hard part until you're living in the years after it. Most of us are somewhere in those years right now.
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.
