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Inaugural Environmental Sustainability Lecture Series: Michael Grunwald
STEM Posner Lecture Hall/Touzet Quad
Sponsored by the Class of 1998.
Michael Grunwald is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist who is working on a book for Simon & Schuster about how to feed the world without frying the world. He is also the co-host of the "Climavores" podcast and the food and climate columnist for Canary Media. He was previously a staff writer for Politico magazine, Time magazine and The Washington Post, where he wrote the lead news story about the September 11 attacks. He has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting, and many other journalism honors.
Michael Grunwald is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist who is working on a book for Simon & Schuster about how to feed the world without frying the world. He is also the co-host of the "Climavores" podcast and the food and climate columnist for Canary Media. He was previously a staff writer for Politico magazine, Time magazine and The Washington Post, where he wrote the lead news story about the September 11 attacks. He has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting, and many other journalism honors.
Mike is the author of two critically acclaimed books, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Simon & Schuster, 2006), which was adapted for a PBS documentary, and The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era (Simon & Schuster, 2012), which spent four weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. They both won the gold medal for non-fiction at the Florida Book Awards.
Mike grew up on Long Island and attended Harvard College. He now lives in Miami with his wife, Cristina Dominguez, an Ayurvedic counselor; their son, Max Grunwald '26; their daughter, Lina Grunwald '28; and their extremely annoying dogs, Cookie and Wags.
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