Yessenia Funes is an editor-at-large at Atmos Magazine. She is an environmental journalist who focuses on the intersection of race and the environment, with a keen interest in climate policy, ClimateTech, and global warming. Yessenia's work has been featured in prominent publications such as Yale Climate Connections, National Geographic, and The Guardian.
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Yessenia Funes covers a wide range of topics related to climate change, environmental justice, and renewable energy. Her articles often cite data and government announcements, indicating an interest in evidence-based reporting and policy developments. She also explores the scientific aspects of climate change while highlighting its cultural and societal impacts.
Given her focus on citing data and government announcements, she may be interested in pitches that provide access to exclusive or hard-to-find data related to climate change or environmental policies. Additionally, experts who can offer insights into the legal and regulatory aspects of environmental issues could capture her attention.
As Yessenia does not have a specific geographic focus, contributors with international perspectives on climate-related topics such as activism, indigenous communities' struggles against environmental challenges will likely resonate with her coverage area.
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San Diego and Tijuana's Friendship Park was once a sacred meeting ground for Mexican-U.S. families. It's now an impregnable bulwark.
Experts are divided over the SPEED Act, which aims to expedite climate action, counterintuitively, by eroding environmental law.
By: Yessenia Funes
One year after massive flooding hit western North Carolina, immigrant families are rebuilding with little more than grit, neighbors, and community organizing – under an increasingly hostile government.
Thousands of volunteer farmhands pilgrimage to Palestine each year—but two years of genocide have made the journey more challenging.
Increasingly, doctors are prescribing time in the natural world as a treatment that can help patients with a wide range of diagnoses.
By: Yessenia Funes
Advocates are working to ensure that world leaders don’t ignore people displaced by climate change.
By: Yessenia Funes
Activistas trabajan para que los líderes mundiales no ignoren a las personas desplazadas por el cambio climático
By: Yessenia Funes
This chemist is cleaning up fossil fuels, but her real passion is communicating science to kids
By: Yessenia Funes
In Chicago’s South Side, Latino community members are transforming a park, and a charter school is teaching kids how to grow food.
By: Yessenia Funes
Yessenia Funes is a journalist who has covered the climate crisis and environmental racism for a decade. She's editor-at-large for Atmos, an independent magazine. She also publishes a creative climate... More by Yessenia Funes
