Kendra Pierre-Louis is an award winning climate reporter with Bloomberg. She has worked as senior climate reporter with the Gimlet/Spotify podcast How to Save a Planet, as a climate reporter with The New York Times and as a staff writer for Popular Science. She is also the author of the book, "Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet."

Kendra is a recipient of the 2023 New York Press Club Award for the audio story, “Sandy Was Just the Start. Is New York City Building Resiliently Enough for What’s Coming Next?” and a 2022 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. She received the gold award in the magazine category for her story "How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities in MIT Technology Review.

Kendra has an MS in Science Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in Sustainable Development from the SIT Graduate Institute and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.

When she’s not achieving dramatic feats like living in France without eating butter, Kendra can often be found sewing, hiking, or on Bluesky railing against mayo.

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