Emma Foehringer Merchant
Emma Foehringer Merchant is a journalist who has covered environmental issues ranging from natural disasters to wonky energy regulations to air pollution.
Her interest in environmental writing began in high school after she wrote a mock bill for the US to join the Kyoto Protocol as a class assignment. Since then, she’s edited her high school newspaper and reported on the environment for publications including The New Republic and Grist.
Most recently, Emma covered clean energy as a staff writer for Greentech Media and helped alums of that organization form a new publication called Canary Media. She graduated in 2014 with a degree in environmental analysis from Pomona College, where she lived through a California drought while studying how climate change is impacting the state’s environment and its people.
At MIT, Emma hopes to deepen her investigative reporting skills to continue reporting on environmental issues.
