Zoë Schlanger

Zoë Schlanger is a writer who covers how climate change and pollution impact human and non-human life. She is a staff reporter at Quartz, and her work has appeared in Newsweek, Wired, and The Nation. She received the 2017 National Association of Science Writers’ reporting award for a story on environmental racism in Detroit, and was a 2019 finalist for the Livingston Award, for a series on water and heat at the Texas-Mexico border. At the Mesa, Zoe worked on a book about the cutting edge of botany research on plant behavior, what it has to teach us about the possibilities of non-human intelligence, and what that means for our imagined place in the hierarchy of life.