Lisa Martine Jenkins
Lisa Martine Jenkins

Lisa Martine Jenkins

Lisa Martine Jenkins is Latitude Media's editor. She was previously a reporter for Protocol and Morning Consult, and her work has appeared in Heatmap, The Guardian, and Civil Eats, among others. In 2017, she was the Overseas Press Club Foundation's Stan Swinton Fellow, placed at The Associated Press in Mexico City. Earlier in her career, she worked in production for both the Marketplace Morning Report radio program and San Francisco's Commonwealth Club.

Lisa has an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she studied energy and environmental policy. While there, she conducted research on both rural electrification in Myanmar and the impact of sea level rise on nuclear spent fuel storage; the latter was published in Energy Policy.

She lives in Brooklyn, and is originally from the Bay Area. You can find more of her work  at lisamartinejenkins.com.

Lisa Martine Jenkins is a contributing writer to Latitude Media.
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