Laura Klivans

Laura Klivans is an award-winning climate reporter for KQED News, where she covers climate change. She is the former host of Deep Look, KQED’s video series. Her work reaches national audiences through NPR, Here & Now, PRI, and other major outlets. She has won five Northern California Area Emmy Awards and first place in the Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards. In the past, she taught audio storytelling at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, led international education programs, worked with immigrants and refugees along the Thai-Burmese border, taught high schoolers sex education, and worked as an actress. She is a former UC Berkeley Human Rights Fellow, University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism’s California Fellow and Coro Fellow in Public Affairs. She has master’s degrees in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley and in education from Harvard University, and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University.