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Bina Venkataraman, a Metcalf Institute Environmental Reporting Fellowship<\/a> alumna, speaks passionately about our world. \u201cThe story of our planet is to me one of the biggest and most important stories, and science is a major tool for telling the story,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n As she begins her new position as senior advisor on climate change innovation in the Obama administration, Venkataraman reflects on her new job at the White House, and an important stop along the way.<\/p>\n \u201cMy time with Metcalf is one of the threads that helped me stitch together a mission to convey science in ways that resonate with more audiences, \u201c said Venkataraman.<\/p>\n Venkataraman\u2019s had just left her post reporting on the science desk of The New York Times<\/a> when she began her ten-month Metcalf fellowship in 2008. She saw the learning experience as an opportunity to strengthen her understanding of environmental and marine science.<\/p>\n \u201cI measured wind speeds on Block Island and waded waist-deep into rivers. I helped harvest oysters in a blizzard, and I learned about flying into the eye of a hurricane,\u201d she said. \u201cMetcalf reinforced for me that journalists play a crucial role as storytellers who can convey the mysteries of the planet, and the reality of how the earth is changing.<\/p>\n \u201cI also love Rhode Island and hold a deep conviction that anyone who has the chance to spend September in Narragansett should drop everything and do it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Metcalf placed Venkataraman at The Boston Globe<\/a> for nine months of reporting on environmental issues to complete her fellowship, after which she joined the Globe\u2019s editorial board until 2010.<\/p>\n A graduate of Brown University<\/a> and Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government<\/a>, she teaches at MIT in the department of Science, Technology, and Society<\/a>. In her new position in the Obama Administration, Venkataraman will lead an effort to make data on climate change impacts available to people around the country so that they can yield insights for communities, companies, and citizens.<\/p>\nRead More Alumni Profiles<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bina Venkataraman, a Metcalf Institute Environmental Reporting Fellowship alumna, speaks passionately about our world. \u201cThe story of our planet is to me one of the biggest and most important stories, and science is a major tool for telling the story,\u201d she said. As she begins her new position as senior advisor on climate change innovation in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2195,"featured_media":9541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alum-hp","category-alumni-reporting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}