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Who We Are

At the Center for Climate Literacy, we strive to be inclusive, cooperative, and collaborative in our work. Achieving a sustainable, ecological, just Earth will require all of our talents. We welcome and invite many ways of contributing. 

Membership is free and open to anyone who believes in our mission.

Since its opening in 2022, the mission of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Climate Literacy has been to accelerate a transition to an ecological civilization by transforming education from within. We train and support classroom teachers to incorporate climate literacy in their everyday teaching across all subject areas. We design resources, workshops, and professional development that builds educator networks and empowers grassroots transformation.

Everyone can play a part in spreading climate literacy. Our members, called Fellows, are recognized for the work they do—whether it is teaching workshops or researching grants or spreading the word. To learn more about becoming a Fellow, visit our Fellows page. 

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Leadership

Core operational members who guide and direct the Center's projects.

Editor - Climate Literacy in Education
Editor - Climate Literacy in Education
Associate Director of Development
Lead Editor, Climate Lit
Climate and Sustainability Literacy Liaison, Türkiye
Editor - Climate Literacy in Education
Creative Lead
Liaison to Worldwide Teach-in on Climate and Justice
Editor - Climate Literacy in Education
Editor - Climate Literacy in Education
Editor - Climate Literacy in Education
Editor - Climate Literacy in Education
Editor - Climate Literacy in Education
Associate Director of Community Engagement
Associate Director of Research
Associate Director of Arts Education

Ambassadors

Artists, illustrators, and creatives who endorse the Center and whose work promotes climate literacy

Founder of Captain Polo Academy; Author and illustrator
YALSA Reader’s Choice Award Winner, Parents Magazine Best Children’s Book Award Winner
Founder of #KidLit4Climate, author-illustrator
Newbery Honor winner, multiple Pura Belpré Medalist, and Poetry Foundation's 6th Young People's Poet Laureate
First U.S. Library of Congress-nominated National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Pura Belpré and Walter Dean Myers Honors winning author
Newbery Medal award winning author
Caldecott Medal and Orbis Pictus Award winning author-illustrator
Climate Imagination Fellow, PhD in particle physics, author of Ambiguity Machines
Award-winning author and Order of Canada inductee
Academy Award, Hugo Award, and Kate Greenaway Award-winning author-illustrator
Caldecott and Pura Belpré-winning illustrator
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Crystal Kite shortlisted author
Newbery Medal winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author
Three time Caldecott Medal-winning author-illustrator
Green Earth Book and E.B. White Read Aloud Award-winning author
Caldecott Award winning and NYTimes bestselling author
American Fiction Award winning author
Pura Belpré Honor winning author and speech pathologist
Stonewall and Printz Awards Honor winning author
Author of Setsuko and the Song of the Sea
American Indian Youth Literature Award Winning Author-Illustrator
Judy Blume Award-winning author
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Advisors

Policy makers, activists, and community leaders who endorse the work of the Center

Climate activism leader, professor at the University of East Anglia, Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project
Award-winning historian, Anthropocene expert, founding editor of Subaltern Studies, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Professor at the University of Chicago
Founder of EvolvedNest.org, president of KindredMedia.org, professor emerita at Notre Dame
Environmentalist leader, entrepreneur, author; founder of Project Drawdown
integrator philosopher, author; founder of the Deep Transformation Network
Editor-in-Chief of The Ecological Citizen, expert in ecological ethics
Founder, Permaculture Education Institute
eco-fiction expert, founder of Dragonfly.eco
Award-winning environmentalist, author, and climate activist leader; co-founder of 350.org, and founder of Third Act
children's literature scholar, OBE, professor emerita of Newcastle University
climate literacy & pedagogy expert, professor emeritus at University of Minnesota
fairy tale, folklore & myth expert, professor emeritus at University of Minnesota