Clare Fieseler, Senior Columnist

Clare Fieseler, Ph.D., is an award-winning journalist, ecologist, National Geographic explorer, and alum of Georgetown’s STIA Program. She has written about climate change and the ocean for numerous outlets including National Geographic, The Guardian, Vox, Mother Jones and The Washington Post. She most recently was a staff reporter covering offshore wind power for Canary Media, a non-profit news outlet. Prior to that she covered climate and clean energy for POLITICO and was an investigative reporter covering the environment for The Post and Courier. Prior to journalism, Clare completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History and taught at Georgetown University. She has a Ph.D. in ecology from UNC Chapel Hill, a masters degree in environmental management from Duke, and a bachelors degree in foreign service from Georgetown.