i wonder to what extent do you engage with the potential impact that these stories have? Oh, yes. In some ways, i feel kind of shameless about, and very open to owning the fact that i want to be part of a collective conversation about change. And so ya hopefully evolving in terms of, when i get really hopeless about it, just remembering that we're all taking little, tiny pieces of it over a period of time.
Sarah Stillman is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the director of the Global Migration Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She won the George Polk Award for "The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters."
“I’m all about the Venn diagram where the individual meaningful stories of things people are up against intersect with the big systemic injustice issues of our day. It feels like climate is clearly an enormous domain where it’s been hard in some ways to tell substantive stories of where actual human beings are navigating and pushing back on some of these huge cultural forces.”
This is the third in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
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