Sarah Sax (she/they) has been conducting research at the intersection of climate change, human rights, and natural resources for over 10 years, with a focus on the Americas. Since 2017 Sarah has worked as a climate journalist and video producer reporting on environmental justice and climate issues. Her award-winning investigative work has focused on the human and climate impacts of industrial agriculture in the Americas, resource extraction and Indigenous rights in the Amazon, as well as the intersection of climate change and prisons in the US. She has produced two docu-series on climate change for Vice World News/SBS as well as a documentary about land defenders in the Ecuadorian Amazon. She previously worked as a food security advisor for the Nicaraguan Institute for the Promotion of Human Rights, where her work focused on increasing food diversity in drought-prone areas of the country. Sarah has a Master of Environmental Science from the Yale School of the Environment and a Bachelor of Science in Global Resource Systems from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
