ICWA fellow Brett Simpson has spent two years based 200 miles above the Arctic Circle in Tromsø, Norway—the world’s northernmost city and host of the Arctic Council—investigating climate change and the growing environmental, societal and political challenges in the Arctic, one of the earth’s most visibly changing environments. (Read Brett’s dispatches.) Please join us at the House of Sweden in Washington, DC on Friday, November 13 when she’ll talk about her remarkable research into the changing Arctic environment, and take part in an expert panel discussion.
Brett’s reporting took her aboard a research ship examining the effects of climate change on the Arctic Ocean; she examined Norway’s energy politics and its Sami people preserving their Indigenous culture; and she observed NATO forces training to repel a hypothetical Russian attack, among many other topics.
An alumna of Princeton and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Brett was previously a Fulbright fellow in Germany. She’s written for National Geographic, The Atlantic, The New York Times and other publications.
Following her talk, Brett will join a panel with leading experts Evan Bloom, Marianne Lavelle and Eli Kintisch to discuss the global implications of the latest developments in the Arctic.
Join us at the House of Sweden on the Potomac River in Georgetown or via Zoom. The event is hosted in partnership with the Embassy of Sweden.
Friday, November 13
10:00 a.m. ET
The House of Sweden
2900 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
and via Zoom
Panel
Evan Bloom is a visiting senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund examining transatlantic security, the Arctic, and international environmental and ocean affairs. During a 30-year career at the State Department, he served as acting deputy assistant secretary of state for oceans and fisheries and director of the Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs. Bloom helped establish the Arctic Council in 1996 and supervised US representation to the council from 2006 to 2020.
Marianne Lavelle is Washington, DC bureau chief for Inside Climate News. She’s covered environment, science, law and business in the region for more than two decades. She has won the Polk Award, the Investigative Editors and Reporters Award, and numerous other honors. Previously, Lavelle was online energy news editor and writer at National Geographic.
Eli Kintisch (moderator) is a climate video journalist and Ted Turner Professor of Environmental Media at George Washington University. Previously, he worked at PBS NewsHour, Scripps News and Science magazine. He created and hosted the climate-focused documentary series “Thaw” for Vox and “After the Ice” for PBS. He’s the author of “Hack the Planet,” an acclaimed book on climate engineering.
