Exchange Club of Bellevue Tuesday Breakfast Meeting 7:30 a.m. Nov 5, 2024 Guest Speaker: Amanda Little, Founder & Director of KIDIZENSHIP!

AMANDA LITTLE
Amanda Little is a professor of journalism and science writing at
Vanderbilt University and a columnist for Bloomberg, where she writes
about the environment, agriculture and innovation. Amanda has a
particular fondness for far-flung and hard-to-stomach reporting that
takes her to ultradeep oil rigs, down manholes, into sewage
plants, and inside monsoon clouds.
She is the author of The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger,
Hotter, Smarter World, which explores how to feed humanity
sustainably and equitably in the climate change era. Her recent TED
Talk, based on this book, has more than one million views. She also
wrote the book Power Trip: The Story of America’s Love Affair With
Energy. Amanda has published her reporting and commentary in
the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Rolling
Stone, Wired, New York Magazine, NewYorker.com and elsewhere. A
former columnist for Outside magazine and Grist.org, she is a recipient
of the Nautilus Book Award, a Rachel Carson Environment Book
Award from the Society for Environmental Journalists, and the Jane
Bagley Lehman Award for excellence in environmental journalism.
Amanda has interviewed figures across the political spectrum, from
Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton to John McCain and
Lindsey Graham, and has appeared on “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross,
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Amanpour & Co. and CNN with Fareed
Zakaria. She is a graduate of Brown University and the founder and
director of Kidizenship, a non-partisan youth civics platform for teens
and tweens. Amanda has served for a decade on the Board of
Trustees at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives
with her husband and kids. Follow her on Twitter @littletrip and
Instagram @amandalittletrip.