Ethan Brown is a Journalism Program Consultant at Metcalf Institute, working to develop a new Local Climate & Environment Journalism Fellowship for newsrooms in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Prior to this role, Ethan was the Founder and Host of The Sweaty Penguin, a comedy climate podcast presented by PBS’s climate initiative Peril and Promise aiming to tackle climate anxiety and polarization. In its four year run, the podcast released over 220 episodes, received over 50,000 downloads, and interviewed over 130 climate scientists and scholars from 18 countries and 6 continents. The Sweaty Penguin also won Webby and Signal Awards, won first place in Boston University’s New Venture Competition, and inspired a new geography course at the University of Kansas which replaced their textbook with the podcast. Ethan also works as a freelance climate journalist and commentator, and has been published in outlets including Newsweek, The Hill, and Hartford Courant. He earned a dual degree in Environmental Analysis & Policy and Film & Television from Boston University in 2021, and this July, won Covering Climate Now’s Emerging Journalist of the Year Award.